Pre-sepsis, broadly, describes the changes that lead to the onset of sepsis. In practice, researchers are proposing that ...

While not every instance of sepsis is caused by an infection, the majority happen when the body’s immune system overreacts to ...

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 ...

Transcriptomics is the analysis of the transcriptome, the collection of all ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is present in a sample (a cell, tissue or organ) at a given time. RNA performs many functions ...

The extension by the UK Government of measures for the lawful processing of confidential patient information (CPI) for COVID-19 purposes is likely to have been welcomed by researchers. Introduced ...

Science and technologies have the potential to transform the healthcare landscape over the next 20 years. Such a transformation will be directly influenced by a range of factors including the complex, ...

Humans differ greatly in their individual responses to pathogens that cause infectious disease (e.g. tuberculosis or HIV). Genomic factors can explain why different people (hosts) may have more or ...

Advances in clinical genomics have been enabled by short-read sequencing (SRS) technologies, where the DNA is broken into pieces up to 300 base pairs long. While these technologies have many ...

The European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 and it forms part of current UK law. A long and complex piece of legislation, the GDPR governs the processing of ...

Any changes in healthcare practice, including the introduction of tests, often requires consideration of their value. Clinical utility is a broad term that is used to denote this usefulness or value ...

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Genomic technologies have the potential to transform the management of infectious diseases. In Pathogen Genomics Into Practice we set out a roadmap to converting the power of this exciting new ...