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 ...

A surprising solution to handle our ever increasing volume of data might be a substance operating at a much smaller scale – ...

Professor James Flanagan, Imperial College, London, on the CLOCS project and how data sharing of transactions could speed up cancer diagnosis. The first CLOCS project showed that ovarian cancer ...

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 ...

Keen to foster global collaboration, the GenomeIndia Project has just released its preliminary findings and opened its genetic database to researchers worldwide. This marks a critical step toward ...

It is no secret that the AI regulatory landscape has experienced monumental shifts in the last six months. Rhetoric that views regulation as a barrier to AI innovation and the cross-sectoral ...

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 ...

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 ...

A shift in focus to more personalised and preventative approaches to health has the potential to enable people to live healthier lives for longer. The incorporation of new health technologies and the ...

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 ...