Sanger Science
16 October 20258.9 min readProfessor Jussi Taipale joined the Wellcome Sanger Institute in January this year as a Senior Group Leader in the Generative and Synthetic Genomics Programme. His ambition? To predict gene expression directly from DNA sequence. In this blog, he reflects on his international research journey, how biology is scaling up, and why his research group aims to solve one of the biggest puzzles in genomics.
11 October 20230.3 min readAs a top UK innovator, the Sanger Institute’s work is foundational to many. We enable partners to apply our science and advance it to develop products, services and therapeutics - solving real-world problems
10 October 20237 min readFrom single cells to systemic change: shining a light on poorly understood aspects of women’s health
Dr Roser Vento-Tormo speaks to us about the lack of women's health research, how she is filling this gap with new genomics methods and organoids, and her recent Emerging Talent Award from the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK.
4 October 202319.1 min readWe highlight some of our impacts - from sequencing the human genome, to enabling the diagnosis of rare disease patients around the world.
2 October 20237 min readUnravelling the genomics of infectious cancer
28 September 20237.1 min readA determined leader in public health, Saheer is used to making the “impossible” not only possible, but routine.
25 September 20235.5 min readTumours from 1000 children with kidney cancer have been sequenced, thanks to the Little Princess Trust and researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The Little Princess Trust ‘Knowledge Bank’ is the largest comprehensive genomics resource for any childhood solid tumour, and is already being used for research to understand childhood cancers.
