Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog. Stories from the cutting edge of genomic research.

Sanger Science

  • 31 October 2023

    Studying the Treponema pallidum bacterium that causes syphilis.

  • 25 October 2023

    Bacteria and Benachin

  • 17 October 2023

    Correlation is not causation

  • 11 October 2023

    Trailblazing Genomics

  • 10 October 2023

    From single cells to systemic change: shining a light on poorly understood aspects of women’s health

  • 4 October 2023

    30 impacts for 30 years

Sanger Life

  • 30 November 2023

    International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM celebrates the work of LGBTQIA+ people in science, technology, engineering, and maths.

  • 23 November 2023

    Racism, medicine and why we need to decolonise healthcare

  • 21 November 2023

    From somatic mutations to Quotient

  • 13 November 2023

    Entrepreneurship at Sanger – pipetting, coding and innovating in genomics and biodata

  • 27 October 2023

    Black History Month – 2023

  • 20 October 2023

    I’m a biologist 2023

Human Cell Atlas

  • 12 July 2023

    Histologists, cardiologists, immunologists, cell biologists, software developers, bioinformaticians and specialist technicians have worked together to see individual cells in unprecedented detail. Using spatial genomics, they located each cell to its precise location in the heart.

  • 26 June 2023

    Swapping stethoscopes for sequencing – a doctor’s journey

  • 2 December 2021

    Mapping the endometrium, cell by cell

  • 3 November 2021

    A Cellular Landscape

  • 30 April 2021

    Championing Team Science

  • 2 July 2020

    Sarah Teichmann, an international pioneer of single cell research

Tree of Life

  • 21 September 2023

    With adult Pine Hoverflies seen in Scotland for the first time in many years, top-quality genome sequences are now helping make a permanent success of saving arguably Britain’s most endangered insect.

  • 14 September 2023

    1,000 species get their genomes sequenced for the first time

  • 3 August 2023

    New Tree of Sex project collects all the wild ways nature reproduces

  • 21 June 2023

    A barcoding buzz

  • 8 December 2022

    Software to sort samples and sequence species at scale

  • 8 December 2022

    Brazil, bats and GoaT

COVID-19

  • 31 May 2022

    Current status of coronavirus genome sequencing at the Sanger Institute

  • 1 March 2022

    Sequencing COVID variants: latest stats

  • 22 November 2021

    A Space for Science

  • 15 November 2021

    Covid Connections – Big Data in a Pandemic World

  • 9 August 2021

    From Mild to Mortal

  • 29 June 2021

    Covid Connections – Variant or Villain