A climate change hotspot in Bangladesh acts as a natural laboratory for scientists aiming to study healthy human guts and gauge future disease risk.

At the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Xiaotian Liao navigates a world of protein puzzles, global experiences and furry friends, blending curiosity and computation into a journey that stretches far beyond the lab.

In the latest installment of our innovator blog series, we caught up with Dr Matthew Coelho, Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Matthew works within the Somatic Genomics programme and is co-founder of BASE Rx alongside Group Leader, Dr Mathew Garnett.

Dr Omer Bayraktar takes us on a journey through the intertwining of his life and science – a journey that spans continents and generations to shape new scientific narratives about one of our most complex organs: the brain.

With recent advances in pangenomics, we can now analyse mosquito DNA at scale, using graph-based pangenomes to uncover their diversity and track how they adapt.