Mimi Ward says she felt "super proud and happy" to have raised over £11,000 for a charity supporting Dravet Syndrome, a rare ...

Cases of the new covid variant XEC have been detected in 30 different counties, including the USA, China, Taiwan, Australia ...

According to latest figures, about one in seven Leicester people still smoke. However, the figure has come down in the past ...

Edinburgh University has found “genetic islands” of people peppered throughout the UK, where poor genetic diversity has left them susceptible to rare conditions. Lancastrians are 73 times more ...

The shocking sightings of large leopard-like cats have been reported as recently as this year in Harvington, near Evesham and others date back 20 years. Many of these encounters a ...

The Nature Genetics communication paper, published today (02/10/24), has shown that around 6,000 UK children a year with rare genetic diseases never receive a diagnosis, many dying without the ...

A new Covid variant is surging across the UK, with experts saying it’s “just getting started”. XEC was first detected in ...

Research led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London is heralding in a new era for genetic sequencing and testing. In the largest study of its kind to date, published today in Nature Medicine ...

Metagenomics, a conventional approach to study genetic material of microorganisms, has been widely used to study the ...

Up to 100,000 newborn babies in England are to be screened for dozens of genetic conditions as part of “world-leading research” in the NHS. The Generation Study, led by Genomics England in ...