13.7.17 Theo Sanderson and Ellen Bushell explain how characterising the role of many of the malaria parasite’s five thousand genes has shown that more of these genes are required for the parasite to grow normally, than was originally thought.

29.06.17 Qasim Ayub explains the results of a genetic analysis of the Parsi population.

30.01.17 Sharon Peacock and Claire Chewapreecha reveal how the bacterium responsible for Melioidosis has spread across the globe.

26.09.2016 Dr Yali Xue shares her hopes and dreams of using the world’s genomes to understand our evolution and migration out of Africa

29.06.16 Sascha Steinbiss & Thomas D. Otto explain how this new software tool and web server will allow people to compare parasite genomes more effectively

22.06.16 Past migrations within sub-Saharan Africa revealed in a post by George Busby

07/03/2016: Roberto Amato shows how mutations in the malaria gene kelch13, associated with artemisinin resistance in Southeast Asia, are far less common in Africa.

Studying the genome sequences of natural gene knockouts in humans has shown that only a small fraction of our genes are essential for human health. Vagheesh Narasimhan explains.