Home Page | Wellcome Sanger Institute

We use genome sequences to advance understanding of the biology of humans and pathogens to improve human health

Home Page

Science
Explore our teams, research, data & software
People
Meet our scientists, staff, developers & engineers
News
Discover our latest findings & the people behind them
About
Understand our mission to improve health & join us
Innovations
Help translate our work into tools, therapies & diagnostics

Diarrhoea-causing bacteria adapted to spread in hospitals

Diarrhoea-causing bacteria adapted to spread in hospitals

Gut-infecting bacterium Clostridium difficile is evolving into two separate species, with one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals

Read more

Our response to Prime Minister's proposal to fast-track scientists' visas
Lead Immigration Adviser, Cate Knight, calls for more specific information on the planned post-Brexit UK immigration system
An immigration system that will support the scientific sector's access to much-needed skills from around the world is needed ...more
Our 2018/2019 Highlights document is out now
Explore our key discoveries and future research interests in our online interactive PDF
Over the past year we have provided new insights into human, parasite and microbe evolution, cellular development, and the mutational processes that lead to cancer. We also launched our latest research programme, the Tree of Life ...more

Recent News

Hospitals key in the spread of extremely drug resistant bacteria in Europe

Research emphasises importance of ongoing genomic surveillance and infection control

Cancer drug data release set to power next wave of therapeutic discovery

Unique data comparing almost 1,000 cancer cell lines’ responses to 453 licensed and experimental drugs is now freely available to the worldwide research community

Sanger Institute researcher, Henry Lee-Six, wins Dr Falk Pharma/Guts UK essay prize

Medical student working in the Cancer Genome Project wins prize for colon cancer research