Our policy briefings and explainers are part of our horizon-scanning programme to identify those novel technologies showing greatest promise for health research and care. Succinct and accessible, they ...

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 ...

Register here The first CLOCS project showed that ovarian cancer patients started buying over-the-counter medications up to 8 or 9 months before their diagnosis, with their first GP visit regarding ...

Opinions differ as to the value of genetic information in the form of polygenic scores and the usefulness of polygenic score analysis as part of routine healthcare – clinical utility. Views on ...

The science of host genomics examines the interconnectedness between our personal genetic signatures, pathogens and disease processes. With this information, scientists could discover ways to improve ...

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 ...

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 ...

A paper from this work has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. You can read ‘Lessons from the pandemic for the future regulation of confidential patient information for ...

Citizen generated data (CGD) is a collective term for the data generated by people outside health systems. It can provide insights into health and wellbeing which could contribute to prediction and ...

Machine learning promises to change the way we research, the way we diagnose and ultimately treat patients, but at the same time it poses new challenges for the regulation of medical devices. Machine ...

In Artificial intelligence for genomic medicine we examine the intersection between AI and genomics, the drivers behind the recent rise of AI techniques for genomics and outline existing and emerging ...

Continued improvements in computing power and techniques means that health services are beginning to experience the benefits that machine learning has to offer. From supporting healthcare ...