Equity and scientific collaboration
Encouraging early-career researchers around the world to use their own experiences and platforms to foster better international collaborations
2024
2023
No-code deep learning with Jiva.ai
Deep learning for everyone
70 years since the discovery of DNA
Celebrating the birth of the central dogma
2022
The Telomere-to-Telomere CHM13 Assembly of a Human Genome
The Telomere-to-Telomere CHM13 genome has been announced. A few thoughts, later quoted in a friend’s article for the Scientific American (Arabic Edition).
Mind the Gap: A flawed system
A perspective on equity in genomics
2021
Inside Pathology: Clinical Genetics
Journey to a rare disease diagnosis.
Marathon #1
A running story
2020
Automated application of novel gene-disease associations to scale genomic reanalysis
Genomic data is a digital resource that can be revisited, therefore new knowledge allows us to better diagnose old and new patient. However, applying it to p...
2019
Think like a Health Data Scientist
When we interact with the health service, we leave a footprint. Imagine scrapyards, filled with old metal filing cabinets, retired from their jobs as keepers...
My story for NHS Health Careers
Growing up I had always been the ‘techie’ of the house, fixing my family’s broken iPods, printers and PCs. I later bought a few textbooks online and I spent ...
Can genomic medicine attract, recruit and retain clinical bioinformaticians?
Two decades since the first drafts of the human genome were published, and the formerly niche practice of clinical genomics is being mainstreamed. The new NH...
BSA Future Debates: Would you share your DNA?
The Wellcome Collection aims to challenge the way we think about health. What better place than this for a public debate on the question - ‘Would you share y...
Mind your mindset
Healthcare Science is a vocation. It takes years of hard work just to become minimally competent. As time passes, the enthusiasm and gratitude we begin our t...
2018
Professor Sir Michael Stratton on The Life Scientific
Question - Can you name a breast cancer gene? If we surveyed the public, BRCA would be my bet for the most common reply. Thanks to Angelina Jolie, you may al...
Will AI replace cancer geneticists?
Personalised medicine in clinical practice is today’s reality. In the field of cancer genetics, modern sequencing technologies are used to identify molecular...
Your invaluable genome
Genomic data is the currency of a new era of medicine that promises incredible advances. Here, bioinformatician Nana Mensah explains why