Each year, zettabytes of data are produced globally, which is comparable to the number of stars in the observable universe. This number is increasing at a rapid pace, and in 2025, global yearly data ...

In a world first, the NHS has announced it is rolling out ‘blood-test first’ testing for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in England. The tests have been added to the Genomic Test ...

The “Synthetic Data for Development of AI as a Medical Device (AIaMDs)” report, produced by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the PHG Foundation, offers manufacturers ...

New science and technology can transform healthcare, offering exciting opportunities for better and more personalised prediction, prevention and treatment of disease. Our primary focus continues to be ...

Professor James Flanagan, Imperial College, London, on the CLOCS project and how data sharing of transactions could speed up cancer diagnosis. The first CLOCS project showed that ovarian cancer ...

A new type of medicine that uses an approach called ‘gene silencing’ has been approved for use in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. The medicine, patisiran (brand name Onpattro) is used ...

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 ...

With the recent launch of its infectious diseases strategy, Public Health England (PHE) has outlined is ambitions for the next five years in terms of its core mission “to prevent, detect, respond to ...

Integration of polygenic scores (PGS) into clinical practice requires robust, validated mechanisms to generate these scores. A consistent message in our reports has been that to deliver PGS-based ...

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 ...

The UK government Department of Health and Social Care has released the newly updated version of the Data saves lives: reshaping health and care with data strategy for the NHS.. First released in ...