Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog

Malaria parasites: more susceptible to a knock-out blow than we thought?

13.7.17 Theo Sanderson and Ellen Bushell explain how characterising the role of many of the malaria parasite’s five thousand genes has shown that more of these genes are required for the parasite to grow normally, than was originally thought.
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Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2016: Generation Genome highlights the potential for pathogen genomics in patient diagnosis and infection control

04.07.17 The UK Chief Medical Officer’s Report has highlighted the vital role genetics and genomics will play in UK NHS healthcare and medicine. Professor Sharon Peacock helped write the report’s chapter on Infectious disease.

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‘Like sugar in milk’: Parsi populations from India and Pakistan

29.06.17 Qasim Ayub explains the results of a genetic analysis of the Parsi population. Continue reading →

Tracking the movement of a deadly pathogen and biothreat agent

30.01.17 Sharon Peacock and Claire Chewapreecha reveal how the bacterium responsible for Melioidosis has spread across the globe. Continue reading →

In search of the hidden reservoir of Malaria

20.12.16 Arthur Talman explains how his field work in Mali could help understand the behaviour of malaria parasites.
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Out of Africa: more data must give us definite answers, soon ….

26.09.2016 Dr Yali Xue shares her hopes and dreams of using the world’s genomes to understand our evolution and migration out of Africa Continue reading →

Companion: a new tool to generate and visualize annotation of parasite genomes

29.06.16 Sascha Steinbiss & Thomas D. Otto explain how this new software tool and web server will allow people to compare parasite genomes more effectively Continue reading →

Understanding historical population movements and the study of malaria

22.06.16 Past migrations within sub-Saharan Africa revealed in a post by George Busby Continue reading →

Personalised medicine – how to stand out in a crowd

25.05.16 Personalised medicine is the promise of genomic research, but to make it a reality will take a community of researchers, clinicians, healthcare workers, policy makers and patients, Sarion Bowers explains Continue reading →