Completing the puzzle of life on earth
Behind the scenes of Sanger's Tree of Life programme
Barcoding creatures and building confidence
Meet Leia Zhao, a research assistant working in the Evolutionary Genomics group in the Tree of Life Programme.
Making your voice heard
Evolutionary genomics, creepy crawlies and being a woman in science
The diversity of plants
We spoke to some of the team planning to sequence the DNA of every plant species in Britain and Ireland about the diversity of plant genomes and the importance of plant science in the face of global challenges.
The Story of Dogs
Dogs, descended from wolves, were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, some 40,000 years ago. New research, using modern DNA sequencing, is unravelling the evolutionary history of our canine companions.
Darwin Tree of Life in 2021: Tireless fieldwork and the first beautiful genomes
Teams have been collecting species across the UK - from the mountains of Scotland, to the sea caves of Wales, and the forests of Oxfordshire. Back in the labs we’ve been processing protists, extracting DNA, and assembling and publishing the first of our high-quality, reference genomes.
Marine medicines from the slimiest of worms
“They’re not cute or charismatic. They have toxic mucus. But I like nemerteans because no one is rooting for them – and we know so little about them.”
Genomics for all
In this guest post, Sadye Paez and Marcela Uliano-Silva explore what it takes to sequence the genomes of all life on Earth with the principles of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.
Eimeria: the chicken parasite costing farmers billions
By sequencing the genome of this single-celled coccidian parasite, scientists hope to develop better vaccines to protect poultry from a disease that causes severe diarrhoea and death.
