Words and pictures by: Alex Cagan Date: 17.09.18 Prelude: Death from above Today, you are a honeybee and today you

The golden eagle genome is the first sequence completed as part of the 25 Genomes Project. Kat Arney talks to Rob Ogden about how this will help conservationists protect and manage these fabulous birds.

More than half of the species’ genomes have now been sequenced and assembled. But starfish, flatworms and truffles are a different matter, Dan Mead discovers

Dan Mead is a happy man, here’s why …

Crickets’ genomes are tricky things, just when you think you know how big they are, they just get a whole lot bigger

Dan Mead discovers that conferences can be a great way to build fruitful research collaborations…

Finding a blackberry bush was as easy a pie, but then Dan discovered that there are 300 different species… and even experts struggle to tell the difference

Dan Mead continues his hunt to collect all 25 species to sequence…

Sequencing new species is hard enough, but finding out where you can get a sample to work with can be even harder, Dan Mead discovers

From 2 billion species to just 25 – how the Sanger Institute chose which species to sequence