Innovations for health
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Our policy briefings and explainers are part of our horizon-scanning programme to identify those novel technologies showing greatest promise for health research and care. Succinct and accessible, they offer clarity on the key concepts and challenges of novel molecular and data-related technologies emerging from research.

Many of these briefings have been produced with support from the WYNG Foundation.
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Gene therapy and type 1 diabetes

​Gene therapy to remove or reduce daily insulin therapy for T1D has been an attractive prospect for several decades. Despite continued pre-clinical research progress has stalled due to several barriers.

January 2025
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Electrogenetics – a new avenue in precision medicine

Electrogenetics is an emerging field in synthetic biology that uses electrical or electrochemical stimulation to control gene expression

October 2024

 
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Gene-editing animal organs for xenotransplantation into humans

Due to the acute need for donor organs, there is a significant push to make progress in the ability to transplant organs between species, including from animal to human.

December 2022
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Noncoding variants and transcripts for rare disease diagnostics

Recent advances in genomic methods have allowed the study of the 98% of the genome previously considered as non-functional or ‘noncoding’

November 2023

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Noncoding variants and transcripts for rare disease diagnostics

Recent advances in genomic methods have allowed the study of the 98% of the genome previously considered as non-functional or ‘noncoding’

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November 2023
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Optical genome mapping

Optical genome mapping is gaining traction in haematological cancers, solid tumours and rare diseases, and aims to provide genetic diagnoses to patients and increased depth of information to clinicians

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November 2023
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Optical genome mapping

Optical genome mapping is gaining traction in haematological cancers, solid tumours and rare diseases, and aims to provide genetic diagnoses to patients and increased depth of information to clinicians

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November 2023
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