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The Royal Brompton Hospital in London has announced that it will be using a new Next Generation Genetic Sequencer machine, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), to investig

Traditionally the Swedish government has spread its money to as many scientists as possible for research in the life sciences. The government has now decided to spend more than $75 million setting up

A new paper in the Lancet provides the first example of a full-genome sequence of a healthy individual being combined with a broad clinical analysis [Ashley EA et al. Lancet (2010) 375: 1525-35]. Alth

A paper in PLoS ONE [Hu G & Agarwal P (2009) PLos ONE Aug 6;4(8):e6536] describes how the authors performed a systematic large-scale analysis of the transcriptome profiles of thousands of differ

A new database has been launched by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institiute (EMBL-EBI) based at Hinxton near Cambridge that should enable more comprehens

The Public Health Agency of Canada has announced that scientists from Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory have completed the full genome sequence of samples of the H1N1 influenza virus, which

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) has published the second report from the Initiative on Personalized Health Care. This programme aims to “improve the safety, quality and effe

The rising incidence of obesity presents one of the most disturbing and widespread public health problems for many societies. In the UK the rate of obesity has roughly doubled since the 1980s, with

The European Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure was officially launched at a meeting held at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Center in Cambridge from 10-12 February 2008. This &ls

Cancer researchers from Asia attending the International Union against Cancer (UICC) symposium in Nanjing, China in November, have developed plans for a regional network to share data on cancer epidem