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Keeping you up to date with the latest developments in science, policy and health
Blog Cancer, screening, and polygenic scores
1 November 2022
Screening is an important aspect of disease control and can support diagnosis and treatment of early stage disease.
Blog CAR-T cell therapy for lupus
19 October 2022
CAR-T cell therapy involves genetically engineering T cells, a type of immune cell, so that they respond to a prespecified molecular marker, or antigen.
News Accelerating genomic medicine in the NHS: a new era?
17 October 2022
NHS England has released a new strategy setting out plans to embed genomics into national health service: Accelerating genomic medicine in the NHS.
Blog Accelerating genomic medicine
17 October 2022
The new NHS strategy set out the plan for integrating genomics over the next 5 years.
Blog Biomarkers and cancer precision medicine
17 August 2022
A set of consensus statements on the use of biomarkers in cancer research and treatment were released this month. We discuss what these mean.
Blog Are data trusts trustworthy?
3 August 2022
Data it vital to health innovation but there remains a common feeling of mistrust in those who hold that data. Why?
Blog Sequencing monkeypox
25 July 2022
Over the weekend the WHO declared the monkeypox outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern”.