Genetic study

Recently, DDW reported on how over three million people have been invited to join Our Future Health. Andrew Roddam, CEO of Our Future Health, shares the impact research programmes such as this will have on drug discovery.  Millions of people in the UK and around the world spend many years of their later life in […]

Scientists have shown how stomach cancers can develop resistance to a new class of drugs called ATR inhibitors by switching off the activity of two key genes – raising the possibility of outsmarting cancer by predicting drug resistance in advance.  The findings could pave the way for a genetic test to predict which patients are […]

Over three million people have been invited to join Our Future Health, which is set to become the UK’s largest ever health research programme. Letters are being sent out this autumn inviting members of the public to join Our Future Health, designed to help develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases. Eventually, up […]