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 ...

Functional genomics is a field of molecular biology where researchers attempt to understand the complex relationship between genotype and phenotype. While genetics and genomics cover the study of ...

Progress with data technologies, such machine learning and AI, are increasingly inseparable from discussion and application of genomic and other ‘omic technologies. Our analysis considers the key ...

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 resources make recommendations for achieving good data governance and trustworthy systems of data storage and sharing. They set out for researchers – or anyone needing up to date overviews – the ...

Expanded newborn screening: A review of the evidence is a systematic review of the evidence to support expansion of current UK newborn screening provision to include any of five additional forms of ...

Current UK policies promote early diagnosis of dementia among people with symptoms of the condition, but do not support either screening or prediction of future dementia risk among apparently healthy ...

This report explores privacy and anonymity in the context of genetic and genomic data: the protection of privacy and anonymity is regarded by some as of absolute importance, but increasingly, this ...

From wearables for health monitoring and self-care apps, to machine learning analysis of medical images, the potential of digital technologies to revolutionise healthcare has commanded many headlines.

Host genomics looks at genetic differences to help to explain how the host, such as a person, may respond differently to a pathogen which causes disease. It is a rapidly developing science which is ...