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 ...

Professor Anneke Lucassen, University of Oxford, on the challenge of an effective balance between predictive and diagnostic needs.

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 ...

Patricia is a Policy Analyst in the humanities team. She works on legal and ethical issues for data protection and data governance introduced by scientific health innovations. She is completing a PhD ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.