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 ...

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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 ...

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 Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 aimed to make England the world leader in dementia care, support, research and awareness by 2020. While substantial progress has been made on many of ...

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 ...

With the current pandemic of bird flu – avian influenza – there is a growing concern around diseases spilling over from animals to humans. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the devastating impact such ...

A new paper provides an intriguing update on recent efforts to develop blood tests to detect cancer early. These non-invasive tests analyse circulating tumour (ct)DNA – small fragments of tumour DNA ...

A new report from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee sets out recommendations for the UK Government needed, the committee says, to ensure that the transformative potential of ...

There is growing evidence that climate change adversely affects human health. Multiple diseases are sensitive to climate change, many of which are also leading causes of death globally. Despite this ...

The virtual launch this month of the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Africa PGI) marked a ground-breaking initiative to tackle infectious disease in Africa. Led by the African Union Commission ...

Routine genomic testing for cancer patients, machine learning algorithms for triaging patients and applications of therapeutic gene editing were just a few of the topics discussed at the PHG ...