Healthcare cooperatives: The future of healthcare?
The mission of turning data into knowledge is a key aim of DNA Digest. And the key point of this knowledge is to help patients. This sentiment is echoed by healthcare cooperatives such as...
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RDA Third Plenary Meeting
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) 3rd plenary conference is being held next week and of course CEO Fiona Nielsen will be in attendance. The event is focussing on data policy and has distinguished speakers from across the...
Eagle Symposium: Bigger Than Data – Discover or Die?
Next Thursday, the 27th March, DNAdigest CEO, Fiona Nielsen, has been invited to speak at The 4th Annual Eagle Symposium. The symposium is an all day event presenting challenges and solutions to those in...
Congratulations on our essay competition!
A huge congratulations to the winner of the DNAdigest Write for Data Sharing Essay Competition and the £200 prize: Eilish Wells wrote on the current state of data sharing and how we can encourage best...
GCOF The Patient
The Patient was another one of the key themes explored by the Genetics Clinic of the Future. The session was lead by Cor Oosterwijk, Ralf Sudbrak, Francesco Lescai and Maud Radstake. All have distinguished careers in healthcare policy, bioinformatics...
Patenting in Biomedical Innovation: Help or hindrance?
Last week DNA Digest took a trip out of the Wayra hub to hear an expert panel discuss the role and future of patenting in biomedical research. The Talkscience: Patently Obvious? talk and discussion...
National Apprenticeship Week: Women in STEM
On Wednesday 5th our DNA Digest CEO, Fiona Nielsen, attended a special event promoting the benefits to women of careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine. The reception, hosted by Deputy Prime Minister, Rt Hon...
Winner of the DNAdigest Twitter Competition
Congratulations to Mahsa Shabani for her winning tweet regarding the ethical challenges for genomic data sharing. See all our entries in the DNAdigest twitter competition Storify. Big thanks to everyone who participated and shared...
Thunderclap: Lend Us Your Social Media Voice
We are excited to announce that we have now launched our Thunderclap. We would love for you to lend us your social media voice to help spread the word about the importance of data sharing in...
GCOF: The Laboratory and Development of Technology
This weeks poster from the Genetics Clinic of the Future is on the theme of the laboratory and the development of technology. As with the previous posters, which you can take a look at here and here,...
