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News and Trends 6 Dec 2017

CRISPR Does it Again! Gene Editing Tool Identifies a New Leukemia Target

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have reported that a new target for the treatment of leukemia has been found. A new drug target for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has…

December 6, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

News and Trends 24 Oct 2017

British Scientists Prove that it Takes Very Few Mutations to Cause Cancer

Researchers in the UK have analyzed over 7,500 tumors and estimate that a very low number of mutations is needed for cancer to develop. Researchers coming out of the prestigious…

October 24, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 1 Jun 2017

Why Should we be Excited about the Emerging Microbiome Field?

A panel of experts at Microbiome Invest in London discussed the unlimited applications of the microbiome and how emerging companies may have a big impact on healthcare. During the past 10 years, the…

June 1, 2017 - 4 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 30 Mar 2017

New Clues on How the Immune System Weakens with Age

By analyzing the responses of individual immune cells, a new study in Science provides new insights into the decline of the immune system with age. In a collaborative effort, researchers from…

March 30, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

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More News! 27 Feb 2017

Fundraising in the UK will Support Rare Disease Diagnostics Worldwide

Congenica has raised £8M in its Series B financing round to sustain the international rollout of its clinical genome analysis platform Sapientia. Congenica is a genomic diagnostics company in Cambridge's biotech…

February 27, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 6 Jan 2017

‘Packaged’ CRISPR Systems to Standardize novel Biomedical Research

There's a growing appetite to refine and standardize CRISPR protocols, as its application expands into different areas of genomic research. The Wellcome Trust and Desktop Genomics have recent advances to make…

January 6, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 23 May 2016

Even after Quarantine, Ebola still transmitted by Breastfeeding and Sex

Researchers from University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have discovered that Ebola can still be transmitted through sex and breastfeeding after quarantine - causing 'flare-ups' even though the…

May 23, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 25 Apr 2016

AstraZeneca partners up with Genomics Elite for new Biobank

AstraZeneca has announced it will create a new Centre for Genomics Research in Cambridge (UK) - joining the Wellcome Sanger, a Craig Venter Biotech and a Finnish specialist Institute to do so. AstraZeneca is betting…

April 25, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 3 Nov 2015

History of Biotech: 25 Years of The Human Genome Project

The birth of the Human Genome Project was now 25 years ago (woah!)...What was the HGP's significance to biotech? What? The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international effort with a…

November 3, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Marie Godar

News and Trends 1 Oct 2015

Artificially Intelligent ‘Betsy’ will analyse 100,000 genomes for UK Government

The "Berg Interrogative Biology" program from Boston (US) is a form of artificial intelligence the UK government has employed to work its Genome project. The platform will use a combination…

October 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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