News Archive
From our involvement in the Human Genome Project, to our efforts to understand the genetic basis of disease, we have been involved in some of the most important discoveries of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Learn more by browsing Sanger Institute news stories, press releases and features to date.
Sanger Institute Scientist Awarded Cancer Research Prize
18.03.10: Professor Mike Stratton has been presented with the Lila Gruber Cancer Research Award
Professor Leena Peltonen-Palotie: 1952-2010
11.03.10: Professor Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Head of Human Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, died today at her home in Finland
Exploring genetic effects in cells
10.03.10: A deep look into population variation in gene activity provides key insight to cell functions and disease susceptibility
Sorting the drivers from the passengers in the cancer genome
17.02.10: A new study shows how researchers can begin to distinguish those mutations that push cells towards cancer
Gentlemen or farmers?
26.01.10: Most modern European males descend from farmers who migrated from the Near East
Tracking MRSA evolution and transmission
21.01.10: For the first time, researchers have shown how transmission of MRSA from one person to another can be precisely tracked in a hospital setting