How many mosquitoes are there in the world? And other buzzing questions

2025-09-22T09:28:07+01:0020 August 2025|

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.

Making genomics data more representative through Latin American research

2025-07-24T07:53:14+01:0024 July 2025|

Genomic research is lacking representative data, which limits our ability to understand diseases and develop treatments. To fix this, we need to prioritise local leadership, capacity building, and equitable partnerships. Dr Gosia Trynka, Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, shares her experience with Project JAGUAR, a large-scale Latin American genomics collaboration that aims to make genomics data more representative and support fair science and healthcare.

Weaving representation into genomics research

2025-07-21T15:34:12+01:008 July 2025|

Representation in research is key to ensure that science can benefit all of us. The Wellcome Sanger Institute is one of the first research institutions in the UK to launch an organisational Representative Research Strategy. In this blog, we reflect on the Strategy, what it sets out to achieve, what it means and why it is important in today’s society.

Enter the absorbing world of sponges

2025-07-18T10:16:47+01:003 July 2025|

Enter the absorbing world of sponges, the intricate animals that have evolved to inhabit all corners of our Earth’s waterways and oceans. Thanks to a worldwide collaboration of sponge scientists through the Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics project, which is led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, more than 50 published high-quality sponge genomes and counting are now freely accessible to the research community.

Intergenerational insect investigators

2025-04-30T00:18:50+01:0029 April 2025|

We explore how the Barcoding for Beginners programme and BIOSCAN project are using genetic tools to investigate insect diversity across the UK.

Five questions with… Charlotte Cassie on endometriosis

2025-03-25T14:06:16+00:0025 March 2025|

In recognition of Endometriosis Awareness Month, we caught up with Charlotte Cassie, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, to highlight the gap in endometriosis research and how our work at the Sanger Institute is helping to fill this in.