UK blood donors genotyped on an unprecedented scale
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Tens of thousands of blood donors have had their blood types DNA tested in a UK first, in a groundbreaking step towards personalised, precision-matched blood. This is the first step towards enabling the NHS to precision-match blood from donor to recipient during transfusions.
Sonographers conduct ultrasound scans which are essential to pregnancy care and are also used in the diagnosis of cancer.
Pregnant women are offered a scan when their baby is 12 weeks old and again when the baby is 20 weeks.…
Almost 1,000 participants have been recruited into a liver disease study in less than a year using real-world NHS data. It uses software to identify and stratify individuals using historic blood test data held in NHS systems.
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