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CAR-T cell therapy shows promise against rare childhood cancer

A novel CAR-T cell therapy, developed by researchers at UCL and designed to target cancerous tumours, has shown early promising […]

Telomere protection in stem cells

In a new study published in Nature, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered the unique way stem cells […]

A New Blood-Based Model for Dementia

There are nearly 50 million people living with dementia globally. Furthermore, ~50-70% of all dementia cases are caused by Alzheimer’s […]

High Blood Pressure Could Increase Your Risk of Pneumonia

Epidemiological analyses have linked hypertension to an increased risk of pneumonia. This study from the UK biobank confirmed this correlation […]

Genomics week in brief: Week ending 28th November

A lot can happen in a week! But don’t worry we’ve got you covered with the latest round-up of the […]

Largest ever GWAS of Alzheimer’s disease

The results from the largest GWAS of Alzheimer’s disease have been released as preprint in medRxiv. These findings have implicated […]

Barriers and facilitators to implementing pharmacogenomic screening

We summarise a recent pilot study, published as preprint in medRxiv, that explored the practical barriers and facilitators experienced by […]

Single cell analysis provides insight into primary resistance

Using single cell analysis, researchers have revealed cell populations that can predict primary resistance to imatinib in chronic myeloid leukaemia. […]

The Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting

We attended this year’s annual meeting of The Association for Molecular Pathology. It was a virtual meeting that took place […]

Malignant cells: hitchhikers of biological cycles

Here we summarise a recent review, published in Genome Biology, that presented the hypothesis that internal and external ecological variations […]