Fay Allen - March 27, 2024 Endometriosis - research, diagnosis and treatment progress March is Endometriosis Action Month, and this year’s focus is on raising awareness.
Edward Couchman - March 25, 2024 Cancer-killing bacteria: past, present and future While bacteria have frequently made the medical news in recent years due to the urgent problem of ...
Frances Salisbury - February 8, 2024 Yoni Health: the medical secrets of menstrual blood Menstrual effluent contains a wealth of scientific info, including biomarkers for endometriosis, ...
Alex Burns - May 5, 2023 Gene sequencing accelerates with custom hardware The cost to sequence a genome continues to drop exponentially. Over the past 20 years, the cost to ...
Ine Vanderleyden - May 6, 2022 Replacing the bad with the good – an IP perspective on microbial consortia Our body hosts trillions of microorganisms that are essential to many aspects of human health. This ...
Katie Dale - March 14, 2022 Exosomes in liquid biopsy: a nanometric particle packed with potential We are all too familiar with the statistic that 1 in 2 of us will get cancer in our lifetime. Of ...
Fay Allen - March 8, 2022 We need to talk about women's health - spotlight on endometriosis Women’s health is an area that has suffered from gender bias for years. One reason for this is that ...
Frances Salisbury - February 10, 2022 Predicting the unpredictable during pregnancy For many expectant parents, pregnancy is a time of excitement, yet this time can also be riddled ...
Jane Liu - October 21, 2021 Capturing the DNA hydroxymethylome for early-stage cancer detection Biomarkers are measurable indicators of health or disease and the detection of biomarkers in liquid ...
Joseph Morgan - October 14, 2021 CRISPR - the future of gene editing In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Joseph Morgan and Alex Galbraith explore what CRISPR/Cas9 is, how ...
Samuel Hart - September 8, 2021 Liquid biopsies and the future of cancer treatment In this Forward: On Demand vlog, Samuel Hart discusses liquid biopsy technologies and the future of ...
Camille Terfve - August 5, 2021 Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health Special Report Our new Special Report, Patent Landscape in Bioinformatics and Digital Health: a data driven ...
Daniel Yin - July 28, 2021 Senolytics are knock, knock, knocking on ageing’s door In 1974, Bob Dylan asked that we stay forever young. Today, exciting developments in the longevity ...
Fay Allen - July 28, 2021 Is metformin the key to anti-aging? By 2050, it is estimated that one quarter of the global population will be over 60 years old. That ...
Niles Beadman - July 20, 2021 Printed pills: a new dimension for medicine Three dimensional (3D) printing is the latest buzzword ricocheting through high-tech industries and ...
Joseph Morgan - July 19, 2021 First human in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing results make history The ability to directly edit a patient’s genome safely and efficiently to treat genetic diseases ...
Samuel Hart - June 30, 2021 Circulating tumour cells: at the forefront of cancer diagnosis and treatment In cancer patients, “metastasis” occurs as tumour cells break-away from the site at which they are ...
Thomas Driver - June 30, 2021 Cancer diagnosis – new data to support methylation-based liquid biopsy New study demonstrates enormous potential Earlier this month, we published a blog which highlighted ...
Edward Couchman - June 15, 2021 Cell therapy: repairing and rebuilding the body Recent advances in medicine have, for the first time, allowed physicians to directly intervene in ...
Thomas Driver - June 9, 2021 Methylomics – analysing DNA methylation signatures to diagnose cancer Traditional tissue biopsies are a vital aspect of current medical practices which help us diagnose ...
Jo Cripps - June 8, 2021 Need to Know: why your virome holds enormous value Our bodies play host to a complex network of viruses, many of which remain unclassified. Matt ...
Alex Galbraith - May 12, 2021 Diagnosing concussion: liquid biopsy is changing the game Rugby, along with many other contact sports such as football, boxing and American football, has ...
Fay Allen - April 19, 2021 What is the cancer microbiome? The “microbiome” is commonly associated with the gut microbiome, but recently the blood microbiome ...
Adam Gregory - April 19, 2021 Jim Mellon: the reluctant gradualist taking on ageing Forward editor Caitlin Mackesy Davies learns how we might all be able to live long and prosper from ...
Alex Galbraith - March 8, 2021 Detecting progress: liquid biopsy in lung cancer Lung cancer remained the leading cause of cancer death in 2020 with an estimated 1.8 million deaths ...
Frances Salisbury - December 2, 2020 Go with the flow: the allure of the liquid biopsy Forward finds out how fresh technologies are providing a way to cut invasive procedures out of the ...
Joseph Newcombe - October 29, 2020 Personalising medicine based on gut reaction No, we are not talking about jumping to conclusions, but the reactions carried out by the gut ...
Adam Gregory - October 27, 2020 Hummingbird Bioscience to start clinical trials for SARS-CoV-2-targeted antibody, HMBD-115 Our client, Hummingbird Bioscience, has received regulatory authorisation to initiate clinical ...
Nick Sutcliffe - October 21, 2020 Liquid biopsies support precision medicine The treatment of cancer patients with therapies that are specifically targeted to their cancer is a ...
Katherine Green - October 9, 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for CRISPR "genetic scissors" In 2012, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published their ground-breaking paper in ...
Anna Mudge - October 9, 2020 Minimally invasive, maximum potential: liquid biopsy is redefining diagnosis Many of us will know someone who has undergone a biopsy during a medical diagnosis: we may even ...
Nick Sutcliffe - September 22, 2020 Making the detection of cancer in liquid biopsies more sensitive Besides being found within the nucleus and mitochondria of cells, DNA is also present in ...
Jane Liu - September 2, 2020 The emergence of liquid biopsies as companion diagnostics The development of liquid biopsies The term liquid biopsy refers to the use of different body ...
Frances Salisbury - July 16, 2020 Five tips for patenting inventions in personalised and stratified medicine As medical treatments become increasingly bespoke, we reveal some best practices to ensure that you ...
Rachel Oxley - July 9, 2020 “Test, test, test” – the importance of diagnostics in pandemic preparedness While the world waits for a vaccine to be developed and approved for use against the COVID-19 ...
Sean Constable - March 30, 2020 CRISPR used in gene editing clinical trial for first time The revolutionary CRISPR gene editing tool has been used inside the human body for the first time ...
Nick Sutcliffe - February 18, 2020 The evolutionary history of cancer - predicting the disease Cells can acquire the mutations that drive the development of cancer many years before the patient ...
Katherine Collins - January 29, 2020 Advancements of genetic testing The sequencing of the first human genome in 2003 was a major breakthrough in genomics. While this ...
Anna Mudge - December 18, 2019 Will biomarkers come of age? The world’s population is ageing. In 2018, for the first time in history, people aged 65 or above ...
Eliot Ward - December 6, 2019 Gamma/delta T cells emerge as an untapped resource for cancer immunotherapy Third lymphocyte lineage shows its mettle B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that is ...
Anna Mudge - November 27, 2019 Biomarkers and precision medicine A biomarker, an amalgamation of the term ‘biological marker’, is a measurable indicator of a ...
Foteini Tzakoniati - October 25, 2019 Employing CRISPR to expose ‘hiding’ cancer cells to immunotherapy Immunotherapy employs the patient’s immune system against cancer. There are various types of ...
Nick Sutcliffe - October 21, 2019 Controlling genes – the new field of epitranscriptomics The human genome contains roughly 20,000 genes that encode proteins. In order for the cells and ...
Adam Gregory - September 26, 2019 T cell engagers - dark horses of immunotherapy Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology has attracted a lot of attention and investment in ...
Nick Sutcliffe - August 29, 2019 Shifting treatments: cancer as a manageable disease As new treatments drive a shift towards treating cancer as a manageable disease we are seeing ...
Frances Salisbury - August 5, 2019 The rise of predictive medicine Thanks to significant advances in genetics, we are not only getting better at diagnosing disease, ...
Frances Salisbury - June 26, 2019 Gender medicine – deriving novelty from treating women? When you hear the term “gender medicine”, what comes to mind? For many people, the term is ...
Frances Salisbury - June 4, 2019 EU approves first gene therapy for patients with a mild form of β-Thalassemia Exciting news in the personalised medicine space – the EU has just approved the first gene therapy ...
Adam Gregory - May 17, 2019 Precision therapeutics for the precision medicine era In recent years we have seen dramatic advances in our understanding of the intricate and dynamic ...
Simon Kiddle - April 29, 2019 Personalised medicine: patient stratification While the general idea of customising treatment to patients is not new, the degree to which ...
Frances Salisbury - April 15, 2019 Pioneers of precision medicine Breakthroughs in healthcare promise a future in which the individual sits at the centre of medical ...
Frances Salisbury - February 27, 2019 Bioinformatics Inventions: Patenting challenges at the interface of computer and life sciences We are entering an age of precision medicine, with patients receiving tailored treatments, selected ...
Frances Salisbury - February 4, 2019 Fighting cancer with CAR-T therapies In September 2018, NHS England entered into an agreement with Novartis to offer its CAR-T therapy, ...
Emily Hayes - January 30, 2019 Commercialising genomic research in the US: tips for obtaining patent protection The field of genomics has seen incredible advances over the past few decades. Technological ...
Frances Salisbury - January 30, 2019 China - a key player in the global precision medicine race With a growing economy, and a large, ageing population, China is attracting attention from global ...
Frances Salisbury - December 13, 2018 Precision medicine: ethics, regulation and patent law New genomic and proteomic analysis technologies allow for diagnosis and prognosis of patients with ...
Anna Mudge - December 2, 2018 The importance of Innovation Hubs in the UK's North West Region Life science ‘start-ups’, ‘spin-outs’ and SMEs are some of the most innovative businesses and are ...
Frances Salisbury - October 31, 2018 Precision Medicine: the next revolution in healthcare In recent years, we have witnessed a remarkable healthcare revolution. Thanks to advances in ...
