The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is one of the leading genomics centres in the world, dedicated to analysing and understanding genomes.

Great expectations: human genome research

Professor Allan Bradley: a decade at Sanger

The lactase gene in Africa: Do you take milk?

Convergent evolution in human populations is revealed by the recent discovery in East Africa of new variants of the lactase gene. 20/01/07

Religious following: The Y chromosome in India

Research has revealed that the spread of Islam in southern India was down more to culture than to genes. 01/12/06

Towards a global map of epigenetic variation

Human Epigenome Project generates DNA methylation profiles of three chromosomes. 29/10/06

Losing gene activity can be good for your health

The caspase-12 gene may have been inactivated in the human population because the active gene can lead to poorer response to bacterial infection. 09/03/06

X chromosome unveiled

New insights into the role of sex chromosomes in health and disease. 17/03/05

Surface talk: Cells' communication systems

When two cells meet, they talk to each other through the proteins that stud their surfaces. 16/12/04

Chicken genome sequenced

Genome analysis of the red jungle fowl, a wild ancestor of the domestic chicken, is completed by an international consortium. 09/12/04

The Human Genome Sequencing Consortium

The International Human Genome Sequencing consortium brought together scientists at 20 institutions in six countries: France, Germany, Japan, China, the UK and USA. 01/11/04

What is the Human Genome Project?

Between 1990 and 2003, the Human Genome Project undertook he immense task of sequencing the 3 billion bases of genetic information that resides in every human cell. 01/11/04

Human chromosomes 9 and 10 completed

One-tenth of the human genome is unveiled. 27/05/04

Gene-poor chromosome 13 sequence completed

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have completed the sequence of human chromsome 13. 01/04/04

Chromosome 6 unravelled

The largest chromosome completed to date has many genes for the human immune system. 23/10/03

Human genome sequencing completed

The International Human Genome Consortium has announced the successful completion of the Human Genome Project more than two years ahead of schedule. 14/04/03

Mouse genome sequence draft published

An international consortium has published a draft sequence and analysis of the genome of the common mouse, Mus musculus. 05/12/02

Melanoma and the BRAF gene

The Cancer Genome Project has identified a major genetic change involved in 70 per cent of cases of malignant melanoma. 09/06/02

John Sulston: Hands-on at the Sanger

Under the leadership of Sir John Sulston, the Sanger Centre became one of the world's largest contributors to the Human Genome Project. 28/02/01