Sanger Science
30 September 2026Deep inside the body, a hidden world of trillions of microbes is constantly at work. Here, we highlight research led by Dr Trevor Lawley’s group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and explore surprising facts about the gut microbiome, revealing how this unseen ecosystem shapes our health.
9 April 202610.2 min readDiscover how the Wellcome Sanger Institute has been at the forefront of spatial research, exploring how trillions of cells organise, communicate and work together to form a human being. For more than 15 years, Sanger scientists have pushed the boundaries of modern genomics, helping to map the human body in greater detail – cell by cell.
17 March 202612.8 min readWe explore how genomics is helping researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute to unpick the tangled world of parasitic worms.
10 March 202610.5 min readSepsis is a killer, responsible for 20 per cent of all deaths around the world. Yet the condition is notoriously difficult to study. Dr Emma Davenport and her team are using genomics to uncover the biological mechanisms at work.
13 February 20267.7 min readFrom sponges to the human gut, partnerships in nature are everywhere. In this blog, we caught up with Sanger scientists who use genomics to study species that love living together.
3 February 20268.4 min readAs temperatures plummet this winter in the Northern Hemisphere, we found ourselves wondering what are the weirdest and quirkiest things currently stored in the Wellcome Sanger Institute’s freezers?
27 January 202622 min readImagine being able to pinpoint exactly where in an aggressive brain tumour certain genes are turned on – like mapping a city’s most active neighbourhoods at rush hour. That is the promise of spatial transcriptomics, breakthrough technologies that are changing how scientists understand tissues, health and disease, and development.
