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Medics.Academy, Guy's and St Thomas' Partner on Genomics Education for Healthcare Workers

The organizations have partnered to launch Nucleus, an online program to provide genomics education to healthcare workers.

Genomics England Preps for NHS Genomic Medicines Service Launch With New Focus, Tools
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The service will offer whole-genome sequencing to English patients with rare diseases and cancer as part of routine care.

UK Launches Public-Private iDx-Lung Consortium to Improve Early Detection of Lung Cancers

The Universities of Southampton and Leeds will lead the project with participation from Johnson & Johnson, Roche, Oncimmune, BC Platforms, Inivata, and NHS England.

Following Acquisition, UK Firm MyHealthChecked Launches SARS-CoV-2 Consumer Testing Service
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The PCR test is the first offering from the firm, formerly known as Concepta, since it acquired Manchester-based startup The Genome Store in November.

DnaNudge Deploys Direct-to-Consumer Service for PCR-Based Pool Testing of SARS-CoV-2
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Called the COVID Bubble Test, the UK-based service allows the testing of up to 10 people on a single cartridge for £100, or £10 per person.

Nov 30, 2020

Grail Inks Deal With UK National Health Service to Offer Cancer Screening Blood Test in 2021

Nov 3, 2020

UK to Offer COVID-19 Testing for All Liverpool Residents, Workers in Pilot Program

Oct 7, 2020

Nvidia Expands Genomics Activities With Supercomputer, New Partnerships
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Sep 2, 2020

UK Invests $667M to Expand SARS-CoV-2 Testing Capacity

Aug 7, 2020

NHS Wales Introduces Whole-Genome Sequencing for Critically Ill Newborns, Children
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Aug 3, 2020

NHS Will Roll Out COVID-19 Tests From DnaNudge, Oxford Nanopore Across UK

Jul 2, 2020

Genomics England, Sano, Zetta Building Platform to Support Rare Disease Patient Participation
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Jun 19, 2020

Bionano Genomics Q1 Revenues Drop 39 Percent

May 12, 2020

Illumina, UK Agencies Partner on £28M Sequencing Study of COVID-19 Patients

May 5, 2020

Scottish Researchers, Oxford BioDynamics Partner to Identify Epigenetic COVID-19 Biomarkers
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Mar 23, 2020

UK COVID-19 Sequencing Consortium Launches With £20M in Government, Wellcome Trust Funding

Jan 14, 2020

Illumina, Genomics England Ink Deal to Sequence up to 300K People

Dec 4, 2019

UK Researchers Implement Diagnostics.ai System to Improve Infectious Disease Testing
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Nov 21, 2019

Genedrive Receives CE Mark for Hearing Loss Assay

Oct 25, 2019

Illumina Reserved in Comments on PacBio Deal, Forthcoming on Qiagen Deal and New Products
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Oct 24, 2019

UK Firm Genomics Sees New NHS Report, Disease Detection Program as Boon to Business
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Oct 11, 2019

Developmental Disorder Study Uncovers Cases Marked by Mobile Genetic Element Insertions

Sep 16, 2019

Myriad Genetics, University of Leeds Collaborate on Prolaris Clinical Utility Study

Aug 15, 2019

Germline Genome Editing Governance Weighed by International Commission
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Apr 2, 2019

PredictImmune, Addenbrooke's Hospital Sign Agreement to Provide IBD Diagnostic in UK, Ireland

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The Scan

CDC Calls Delta "Variant of Concern"

CNN reports the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now considers the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 to be a "variant of concern."

From FDA to Venture Capital

Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn is taking a position at a venture capital firm, leading some ethicists to raise eyebrows, according to the Washington Post.

Consent Questions

Nature News writes that there are questions whether informed consent was obtained for some submissions to a database of Y-chromosome profiles.

Cell Studies on Multimodal Single-Cell Analysis, Coronaviruses in Bats, Urban Microbiomes

In Cell this week: approach to analyze multimodal single-cell genomic data, analysis of bat coronaviruses, and more.