The growing use of genomic data in healthcare aims to balance predictive and diagnostic needs by supporting both disease prevention and clinical decision-making. Yet, the predictive potential of ...

Synthetic data – artificial data that closely mimic the properties and relationships of real data – are not a new concept but technological advances have led to great optimism about their potential ...

Pharmacogenomics, a branch of precision medicine, is the study of genomic characteristics that affect how individuals respond to drugs. It could be useful for improving treatment for a wide variety of ...

Colin is the PHG Foundation’s Head of Humanities. He leads the team’s work on legal and ethical issues across genomics, novel health technologies, innovative biomedical research and data. Some key ...

These plans have been a long time in the making. The intention to produce a strategy ‘to ensure the UK is able to offer a predictive, preventative and personalised health and care service for people ...

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 ...

Effective data sharing underpins much of health care, and new ways of integrating and mining data support existing practice and inform novel approaches. The regulatory framework that governs the ...

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 ...

Widely regarded as a founder of cell free DNA (cfDNA) technology, Professor Dennis Lo is now pioneering investigation into the emerging science of fragmentomics. If you were at were at our recent ...

A patient arriving in A&E or another clinical setting, with suspected or known infection and the risk of sepsis, requires immediate action. Antibiotic admission more than one hour after suspected ...