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The UK is a recognised powerhouse for genomic science and medicine. Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project is the largest sequencing project of its kind in the world and, building on these ...
It’s been quite a wait, but the much-anticipated National Genomics Healthcare Strategy, has now landed. GENOME UK: The future of healthcare sets out plans to use genomics to drive improvements in ...
The UK government has launched a new alliance to sequence the genomes of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic. Backed by a £20 million investment, the COVID-19 Genomics ...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest challenges facing health systems, causing an estimated 4.71 million deaths globally in 2021. It has been ten years since the World Health ...
We are getting closer to a world where the debilitating pain and complications of sickle cell disease are a thing of the past. For the 17,500 people in the UK living with this genetic condition, this ...
A new type of medicine that uses an approach called ‘gene silencing’ has been approved for use in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. The medicine, patisiran (brand name Onpattro) is used ...
By tailoring drug treatments to individuals based on their genetic makeup, pharmacogenomics has been promising to transform drug prescribing for some years. Recent advancements and the increasing use ...
Healthcare professionals owe a new legal duty to consider disclosing confidential information without consent, if another person is at risk of serious harm. However, this legal duty is more limited ...
With the recent launch of its infectious diseases strategy, Public Health England (PHE) has outlined is ambitions for the next five years in terms of its core mission “to prevent, detect, respond to ...
Integration of polygenic scores (PGS) into clinical practice requires robust, validated mechanisms to generate these scores. A consistent message in our reports has been that to deliver PGS-based ...
We’re living in the era of big data and it’s opening doors for AI-driven multiomics and health. Biomedical information is being generated extremely quickly. Approximately 40 exabytes (or one billion ...