Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute was formed in 1992 for the purposes of funding biomedical research. Specifically genome sequencing efforts. It is the largest charity in the U.K., and receives ...

A toxin produced by E. coli – the troublesome bug that causes vomiting and fevers – could be behind rising bowel cancer rates ...

In this latest study, Sanger Institute researchers and their collaborators used long-read sequencing to create 4,485 plasmid genomes from over 2,000 E. coli bloodstream samples, all collected over ...

In a new study, researchers from the Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge used two novel algorithms to analyze 58,000 pairs of transcription factors from human cells. They did this to ...

MICHAEL TELLS ME THE OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT FROM FAMILY, FRIENDS AND COMPLETE STRANGERS ARE GETTING HIS FAMILY THROUGH THIS VERY HARD Michael Sanger has a life full of memories to share about his ...

Microbiotica is a spin-out from the not-for-profit Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (pictured) which specialises in genome sequencing and has been researching the microbiome since 2010. The UK ...

Professor Jukka Corander, co-senior author at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Oslo, said: "This is one of the most exciting research projects I've led. It has created a vital ...

A Massachusetts woman died while hiking with three of her children after she fell down a cliff on April 23, police said. According to a press release from the Sutton Police Department, the ...