Living with IBD and finding hope for the future

2026-06-16T09:17:00+01:0016 June 2026|

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) looks different for everyone who has it. We spoke with medical student, Imogen about her personal experience of living with IBD, how it has influenced her career path and how new research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute brings her hope.

Chasing the secrets of healthy stool

2026-08-20T09:38:44+01:004 June 2026|

A climate change hotspot in Bangladesh acts as a natural laboratory for scientists aiming to study healthy human guts and gauge future disease risk.

Ways Sanger is helping to transform women’s health

2026-05-12T13:07:07+01:0012 May 2026|

Women’s health is underfunded and understudied. We explore how researchers across the Wellcome Sanger Institute are using advanced genomic tools to unpick the complexities of fundamental women’s health issues.

The history of spatial transcriptomics at Sanger

2026-04-09T09:43:44+01:009 April 2026|

Discover how the Wellcome Sanger Institute has been at the forefront of spatial research, exploring how trillions of cells organise, communicate and work together to form a human being. For more than 15 years, Sanger scientists have pushed the boundaries of modern genomics, helping to map the human body in greater detail – cell by cell.

What the hel-minth?

2026-03-12T15:13:53+00:0017 March 2026|

We explore how genomics is helping researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute to unpick the tangled world of parasitic worms.

Decoding sepsis and the secrets of the immune system

2026-03-09T10:48:21+00:0010 March 2026|

Sepsis is a killer, responsible for 20 per cent of all deaths around the world. Yet the condition is notoriously difficult to study. Dr Emma Davenport and her team are using genomics to uncover the biological mechanisms at work.

Ways Sanger is applying spatial transcriptomics to our science

2026-07-08T16:22:52+01:0027 January 2026|

Imagine being able to pinpoint exactly where in an aggressive brain tumour certain genes are turned on – like mapping a city’s most active neighbourhoods at rush hour. That is the promise of spatial transcriptomics, breakthrough technologies that are changing how scientists understand tissues, health and disease, and development.