Drawing out the beauty of UK invertebrates for #Invertober

2025-01-14T11:03:13+00:0014 October 2024|

Artist and Tree of Life genome scientist Petra Korlević is celebrating the charm and wonder of invertebrates this October. Find out why Petra is capturing the secret world of moths, bees, beetles and anemones living across the British Isle and discover how you can develop your artistic skills.

Coral genomes to combat bleaching

2024-10-04T10:35:58+01:002 October 2024|

Corals are bleaching at unprecedented rates due to human-induced climate change. Researchers studying the DNA of corals and the algae they live in symbiosis with aim to better understand how to protect them.

The secret lives of nematodes

2024-06-25T08:57:19+01:005 May 2024|

C. elegans, a workhorse of modern biology, was the first multicellular organism to have its DNA code sequenced in 1998. But it is just one of potentially millions of nematode species. We explore the latest work to sequence the genomes of hundreds of nematodes and put C. elegans in its evolutionary context.

A barcoding buzz

2023-06-21T16:05:47+01:0021 June 2023|

Sanger researchers are involved in large-scale projects that aim to revolutionise how we monitor and understand global biodiversity – starting with insects. But some of their work is starting closer to home, working with schools and local communities to monitor insect biodiversity across Cambridgeshire and Essex.