Share your thoughts on what you want from future genomics training & events 📢
Our colleagues at Wellcome Connecting Science are looking to understand how their offerings can best support the genomics community.
Anyone can take part via the link below ⤵️
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El jurado del Premio Nacional de Investigación en Cáncer Doctores Diz Pintado 2025 ha resuelto la convocatoria reconociendo la trayectoria del investigador Dr. @imartincorena, líder del grupo de Evolución Somática en el @sangerinstitute
By sequencing the bacteria responsible for yaws, a debilitating childhood disease, experts have uncovered new insights into how these bacteria re-emerge and evade treatment 🧬
Find out how these can be used to help inform public health interventions ⤵️
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Read '‘The Effect of Repeated Mass Drug Administration on the Transmission of Yaws: A Genomic Epidemiology Study' from @sangerinstute, @LSHTM, @Fundacio_Lluita & others in the @LancetMicrobe ⤵️
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Still hearing ‘super-flu’ in the headlines? 🦠
Here is our breakdown of what is really going on this winter – and how genomics helps us track and respond to respiratory viruses.
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The so-called ‘super-flu’ has been making headlines recently, but what is the science behind this virus?
We explain why flu is early this winter, how vaccines work and how genomics can help track respiratory viruses.🧬
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Congratulations to @mo_lotfollahi, @Tom_J_Mitchell, and the team for being awarded a Programme award from @The_MRC 🎉
Their project aims to use generative AI to uncover why kidney cancers can behave differently between patients🔎
Read more about this collaboration between experts at the Sanger Institute, the @EarlyCancerCam at the @Cambridge_Uni, and @ucl, here ⤵️
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Insights into how reproductive organs develop have been uncovered, offering new clues into how reproductive conditions arise. 🔍
Scientists have mapped the genes and signals that drive reproductive development by analysing over half a million cells. 👇
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Read ‘Spatiotemporal cellular map of the developing human reproductive tract’ from @sangerinstitute, @emblebi and collaborators in @Nature, here:
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From cancer cells to placental organoids, Alisha Dordi shares her career journey, driven by curiosity and a desire to push scientific understanding forward. 🧫
Read more 👉 sangerinstitute.blog/2025/12…
Join our Tree of Life Programme as a Group Leader in Biodiversity Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Lead ambitious, large-scale genomics research to understand life’s diversity on Earth.
🔗 Learn more: sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.c…
📅 Closing: 8 Feb 2026
Meet Charlotte Wright, an evolutionary biologist who studies butterfly and moth genomes 🦋
Read on to find out what we can learn from these and dive into Project Psyche, an international effort to sequence all European butterflies and moths 🌍
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ALT Charlotte Wright, a woman with long brown hair, smiles at a butterfly perched on her hand. She stands against a rocky backdrop with lush green foliage.

ALT A group of 15 people stand smiling and waving in front of a brick building. They wear winter jackets, suggesting a cold day, and convey a cheerful, friendly atmosphere. It was a moment from the genome curation course run by Project Psyche at the Sanger Institute. Image credit: Carmen Denman Hume / Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Applications for the 2026 Sanger Prize are open! Offering undergraduate students from low- and middle-income countries the chance to spend 3 fully funded months at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
🔗 sanger.ac.uk/about/study/the…
📅 Apply by 9 Jan 26 at 5pm GMT
The use of sensitive material in research must be conducted with great care and respect. Our latest blog reflects on the ethics, regulations and the thoughtful practices we follow to ensure our work is carried out with integrity.
Read more: sangerinstitute.blog/2025/12…
This study provides important results that show the sequence of cancer-driving mutations influences the likelihood of tumour development in the intestine, offering a deeper understanding of early cancer progression. 👇
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New research from our Winton Group reveals that the order of cancer-driving mutations plays an important role in whether tumours in the intestine can develop.
Find out more: cruk.cam.ac.uk/news/order-of…
@CRUKresearch
Wellcome Sanger Institute retweeted
Waiting for results before the end of the year? Or can't wait to sample or sequence new species in 2026?
Cruise the @WellcomeOpenRes Darwin Tree of Life gateway to read Genome Notes from 2025.
Check our thread🧵for some 2025 favorites⤵️
📸 Petra Korlević/@sangerinstitute
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We are pleased to see Professors Mark Blaxter (@sangerinstitute) and Harris Lewin contribute to this blog highlighting how quality reference genomes - like those generated by our project - could help to inform conservation practice. 🧬
Read more via @FrontScience ⤵️
🌿Biodiversity loss is accelerating—the @EBPgenome is scaling up to create a global resource for conservation, agriculture, & biotech.
Read how Mark Blaxter of @darwintreelife and Harris Lewin of @ASUGlobalFuture are shaping Phase II in this @wef blog 🔗 fro.ntiers.in/dZCuNy0a1Xb
People who persistently carry the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus have a much less diverse community of bacteria in their nose, while certain species may help keep it out. 🦠
These findings offer insight into who may be at higher risk of infection. 👇
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For a deeper dive into the CARRIAGE Study and how it impacts our understanding of antimicrobial resistance, take a nose at our blog:
sangerinstitute.blog/2025/12…
Read 'Large-scale characterization of the nasal microbiome redefines Staphylococcus aureus colonization status' from @sangerinstitute, @Cambridge_Uni, @imperialcollege and collaborators in @NatureComms here ⬇️
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