The importance of public engagement on antibiotic resistance
Nicole Wheeler talks antibiotics, antibiotic resistance and public engagement – and letting people use real software on real data to track antibiotic resistance around the world
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Sanger Life
Living and working at the Sanger Institute
Disability, Inclusion and Science
Distinguished disability rights campaigner, David Ruebain, joined us last month at the Wellcome Genome Campus. He spoke on disability and inclusion in science, as part of the campus Equality in Science event series.
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Chernobyl: chasing a ‘catching’ cancer
Sanger researcher Alex Cagan travelled to Chernobyl’s nuclear exclusion zone for samples of cancer. But he isn’t investigating the effects of the reactor disaster; his quarry has a more ancient source: the immortal cells of an 8,000 year-old animal that are still being passed from dog to dog
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Dr Cordelia Langford wins BioBeat award
The ‘50 Movers and Shakers in BioBusiness 2018’ report identifies outstanding women who are developing revolutionary bioscience. Dr Cordelia Langford, Director of Scientific Operations at the Wellcome Sanger Institute is celebrated in the collaboration category. Ahead of the BioBeat 2018 conference, we spoke to Cordelia about her career and her role as a leading woman in science
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Alzheimer’s Disease: The puzzle we’re so desperate to solve
13.11.17 Fiona Calvert is using stem cells to study Alzheimer’s Disease. Read her shortlisted article for the Max Perutz Science Writing Competition about this work.
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In search of the hidden reservoir of Malaria
20.12.16 Arthur Talman explains how his field work in Mali could help understand the behaviour of malaria parasites.
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Great balls of cells: Using intestinal organoids to study Salmonella
10.09.15 It is difficult to study Salmonella infections in the body. Jessica Forbester explains how newly created balls of intestinal cells can help.
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A world without smell
02.04.15 Fresh bread, your newborn baby, a gas leak; Darren Logan imagines life without these smells and explains his work to understand the genetics of anosmia
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The home of genetic sequencing
05.03.15 Fred Sanger, who unlocked life’s code, will be honoured at a ceremony this weekend. Anita Sedgewick explains how he and world-changing biologists like him are being remembered.
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Battling bacteria: this time it’s personal
24.11.14 Claire Chewapreecha’s research into the genetics of deadly bacteria is motivated by her commitment to improve public health at home in Thailand
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