Stories from the cutting edge of genetic research
Exploring Sanger’s groundbreaking research
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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Staff at the Sanger Institute have joined the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Human Cell Atlas is being used to guide future research into human development, biology, health, and disease.
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Using gene expression data to stratify patients.
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The huge, international Pan-Cancer project is the first large-scale use of distributed cloud computing in genomics. As genomics becomes a big data science, it is likely to be the first of many
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In a study spanning five continents, researchers are hunting for tell-tale ‘signatures’ left in DNA by the unknown causes of cancer.
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Researchers have discovered the first extensively drug resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Studying mouse brain development can give insights into human neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, as well as help diagnose rare genetic conditions
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The method of a baby’s birth affects its collection of gut microbes – its microbiome. But we still don’t know if that has any long-term effects on health
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The wealth of information available to researchers through UK Biobank is powering studies into human health and disease
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