Stories from the cutting edge of genetic research
Exploring Sanger’s groundbreaking research
We’re celebrating: we’ve just read the same amount of DNA in one year as we achieved in the previous 25 years combined. This dizzying speed offers unprecedented possibilities to unlock new understanding in health and disease
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Researchers can change children’s futures in many more ways than just helping to beat a killer disease…
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Some creatures never get cancer, while others can catch it from the sea. Find out more in our list of things you never knew about cancer in the wild
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How Sanger scientists are using genetic surgery to understand the blueprint of life
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An impending flood of genomic data threatens to overwhelm scientists’ abilities to store and share it. Next-generation compression seeks to CRAM it all in
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Hot tea has been linked to oesophageal cancer – but it’s not clear if it’s the cause. Studying DNA changes will help researchers find out.
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Using caterpillars to investigate how human pneumonia works.
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Sanger researchers are harnessing the power of AI to extract new knowledge from the ever increasing flood of genomic data. The findings could transform medicine and biological understanding.
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Mini organs grown in the lab are boosting cancer research and drug discovery.
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In addition to the civil war, Yemen is experiencing the worst epidemic of cholera ever recorded. We spoke to Ankur Rakesh, a volunteer doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, who travelled to Yemen in July 2017 to study the genomics of this highly infectious and deadly disease
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