LONDON — England's publicly funded healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS), announced 11 new Genomics Medicine Centres Monday, as part of a new DNA scheme that aims to tackle cancer and rare diseases.
The centres are part of their 100,000 Genomes Project, which was launched by Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this year to collect and decode 100,000 genomes, enabling scientists and doctors to understand more about specific conditions.
The NHS aims to "transform the future of healthcare" and hopes the centres will "improve the prediction and prevention of disease, enable new and more precise diagnostic tests, and allow personalisation of drugs and other treatments to specific genetic variants." Read more...
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