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Part of the same organisation as the Wellcome Sanger Institute, funded by Wellcome, and based on the Wellcome Genome Campus, UK, our programme is focussed on learning, training, and engagement with genomics.

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Wellcome Connecting Science’s mission is to enable everyone to explore genomic science and its impact on research, health and society.



Genomics Lite Extraordinary science, explained.

Genomics Lite: What is a gene in focus

Exploring the complexity of genes across diverse organisms - and viruses - and helping to reshape what we really mean by a “gene” with guest speaker Dr Zachary Ardern, a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

25 January 2024

 Online

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Exhibition: Genetic Automata

An ongoing body of video works by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, videogames and DNA ancestry.

8 June 2023 - 11 February 2024

 Wellcome Collection, London

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