The race to sequence SARS-CoV-2
The Sanger Institute is built for high-throughput science – but the project to sequence coronavirus demanded more samples were handled more quickly than ever before.
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Sanger Science
Exploring Sanger’s groundbreaking research
Genomes within Genomes
Hiding in the genome of a newly-sequenced red colobus monkey, there was a second species – a parasite descended from malaria.
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‘It had better be good’
The draft human genome sequence was published 20 years ago today. We reflect on what followed for the Sanger Institute, and what the future holds.
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‘These lowly organised creatures’: Earthworm sample collecting at the Sanger Institute
Few organisms have, as Darwin himself wrote, played such an important role in the history of the world.
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New tools to tackle malaria: translating from cutting edge research to real-world applications
This World Malaria Day we look at three ambitious projects, backed by the Sanger Institute Technology Transfer Office, which are tackling areas key to eliminating malaria.
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Puzzles and Parasites
Dr Stephen Doyle, in the Sanger Institute’s Parasites and Microbes Programme, has just been awarded a new UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to use genomic approaches at population to single cell resolution to understand how H. contortus evolves in response to drug treatments.
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Tackling COVID-19 at the Sanger Institute
Staff at the Sanger Institute have joined the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mapping the Human Cell Atlas – charting the body’s cellular world
The Human Cell Atlas is being used to guide future research into human development, biology, health, and disease.
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Sepsis and precision medicine: is it all in your genes?
Using gene expression data to stratify patients.
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Sequencing and the Tree of Life
Progress and promise of the Earth Biogenome Project – a mission to sequence all known eukaryotic species.
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