This project aims to develop techniques that will allow scientists to build ever larger lengths of DNA from scratch in the laboratory, with the goal of understanding better how our genomes work, and ...

CAR-T is a powerful tool which is still evolving. Here we highlight what is new in CAR-T cell therapy Cancer cells often play hide-and-seek with the immune system in an attempt to evade catastrophic ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG), the organisation representing the clinical genetics profession in the US, has released three ‘points to consider’ documents in relation to polygenic ...

The rapid development, approval and roll out of multiple vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is an impressive achievement for science and healthcare. The virus genome was ...

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 ...

The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has released a new report calling for the UK Government to update existing regulations for direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic and genomic tests. The ...

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 ...