From aspiring dentist to sequencing specialist, Ashleigh Williams, Advanced Research Assistant at the Wellcome Sanger Institute shares how following her curiosity led to a career full of cutting-edge technologies and unexpected turns.

Tiny organs, big story. We explore how our organoid biobank came to life – from building long-lived models to making data openly available to the research community.

Professor Mark Blaxter, Head of the Tree of Life programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, traces a path from books to nematodes, community gardens to new technologies – guided by a lifelong interest in the world around him.

There may be a series of products for it and even a musical named after it – but what do we actually know about hair? And how are researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute working to uncover what is really going on beneath the surface?

We are in the seventh global cholera pandemic, which has been going on since the early 1960s. But what is cholera, and why is it still a global issue? Lia Bote, PhD student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, answers our questions about the past, present, and hopefully the future of cholera research.