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

  • 5 December 2023

    Scientists progress towards mapping and modelling a complex, dynamic and ‘multiscale’ system: the human body.

  • 12 July 2023

    Behind the Heart Cell Atlas

  • 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

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