Ambitious goals in autoimmune research
Sanger Excellence Fellow Dr Samantha Jumbe aims to understand the role of genetic mutations in autoimmune conditions like lupus, psoriasis and systemic liver disease.
Studying cancer and pre-cancer in Latin America
New research is focussing on understanding the genetic causes of acral melanoma - an understudied disease that is the most common type of melanoma in Mexico.
Hope for tackling deadly bacterial disease
The fight against melioidosis - a neglected, often fatal, bacterial disease.
Inspiring Inclusion on International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women's Day, colleagues at the Sanger Institute talk about their journey, what inspires them, and why inclusion is important.
Faster, effective and safer gene engineering
Meet Valentina Migliori, a researcher working to make lab science more relevant to clinical research.
Genomics gets faster, cheaper, and more accurate
Four new platforms have been added to one of the world’s largest genome sequencing facilities at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. increasing the speed, capacity and precision of DNA and RNA sequencing.
Meet Professor Tulio de Oliveira, forging a genomic surveillance partnership
As head of the largest genomics institute in Africa and the Genomic Surveillance Unit’s new deputy director, Professor Tulio de Oliveira hopes close collaboration can be “world changing.”
Hacking for the single-cell universe
A recent hackathon, hosted by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, brought together software developers and computational biologists working on tools to analyse data from single cells.
The dark matter of microbiology
Studying the Treponema pallidum bacterium that causes syphilis.
