COSMIC: setting the path for tomorrow’s cancer treatments
From gene discovery, to database, to cancer treatment. COSMIC celebrates 15 years of fuelling cancer research.
DECIPHER: Fuelling Rare Disease Research
More than 15 years ago, a hospital doctor realised that bringing people’s genetic data together could provide answers for families affected by rare diseases. With the help of the Sanger Institute, the DECIPHER project has been helping families ever since
What if medicine could be tailored ‘just for you’?
The information in our genomes is helping doctors diagnose and treat disease. But how far can personalised medicine go?
Tracking a deadly shapeshifter
A global child killer constantly changes its coat to evade destruction, but a worldwide network of scientists is using genetics to get one step ahead.
Breaking the mould – the story of penicillin
From a contaminated dish in London to saving lives on the D-Day beaches of Normandy (via dedicated scientists in Oxford and Peoria), pencillin has saved many millions of lives
We’ve got the power
Running one of the largest biosciences data centres in Europe as efficiently as possible requires cool heads and even cooler machines
Infectious diseases make a comeback in Venezuela following healthcare crisis
The experiences of a friend of a Sanger Institute researcher reveal how parasites and bacteria are now threatening the country's population
Sanger’s super-sized sequencing scales new heights
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
More than just malaria
Researchers can change children's futures in many more ways than just helping to beat a killer disease...
