The Wellcome Trust recently announced that they are funding a research programme to investigate synthetic human genomes, and Laura Blackburn, PHG Foundation’s Head of Science, had the opportunity to ...

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 ...

In a world first, the NHS has announced it is rolling out ‘blood-test first’ testing for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in England. The tests have been added to the Genomic Test ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The European Health Data Space Regulation has arrived but will its mandatory sharing requirement be its tour de force or Achilles’ heel?. The Regulation amounts to an ambitious and laudable step ...

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 ...

The UK government Department of Health and Social Care has released the newly updated version of the Data saves lives: reshaping health and care with data strategy for the NHS.. First released in ...

Each year, zettabytes of data are produced globally, which is comparable to the number of stars in the observable universe. This number is increasing at a rapid pace, and in 2025, global yearly data ...

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 ...