Sanger Science

In recognition of UK Lupus Awareness Month, we caught up with Catherine Sutherland, Computational Senior Staff Scientist in the Human Genetics programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, to discuss more about how their work is contributing to our understanding of lupus.

Our scientists and collaborators are working together to tackle one of the biggest public health threats: antimicrobial resistance. We are using cutting-edge genomics to hunt down drug-resistant microbes, decode their secrets and stop them in their tracks.

Health and safety can often be seen as all red pen and tape but it is not what you think. Our team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute are providing advice and guidance to help enable our projects and keep everyone in one piece.

Kids often have the best questions, and mosquitoes — the world’s deadliest animal — hold so many secrets. Inspired by real questions from 7-year-olds, we dive into some fascinating facts and learn what genomics can reveal about one of nature’s tiniest troublemakers.

What is alternative splicing, and why does it matter? Omar El Garwany, PhD student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, is exploring how splicing differences can cause disease, providing insights that could eventually contribute to better diagnostics and therapies.

An outbreak of a rare mosquito-borne virus in Southern China has prompted drastic containment strategies and sparked fears of another pandemic. To understand more about the situation, we spoke with Professor Roger Hewson, Virus Surveillance Lead in the Genomic Surveillance Unit (GSU) at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.