Behind the Genes

A doctor, a scientist, an entrepreneur, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author is Siddhartha Mukherjee. His new book is called 'The Song of the Cell, An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human'. Siddh…

Before joining All of Us, Martin Mendoza served as director of the Division of Policy and Data at the Office of Minority Health in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Hum…

Muslim Census surveyed 1,007 Muslims aged 18-65+ living in the UK to understand whether these pre-conceptions about Muslim’s attitudes towards health research and genomics more broadly, as well as he…

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Kate Grafton shares her journey with breast cancer at the Genomics England Research Summit hosted earlier this year. She talks living with breast cancer and the si…

The genome itself was the beginning of a whole technological revolution. Matt and Chris talk about taking on the challenge, searching for the needle in the haystack, and making it work at scale! Join…

“I like ambitious visions, I like try to break the codes in order to get something to work to get a result. But on top of that, I want to make a change for the patient today, and a change for the fut…

"We took a look and we perform whole genome sequencing of Mila, her mother, her father, as well as her little brother. And we looked for something that might have been missed in those dark regions of…

"I was driven by a personal desire to see this problem solved." 

On Today's Episode, Parker Moss, our Chief Ecosystems and Partnership Officer, is joined with Reed Jobs, the Managing Director of Heal…

"I know the power of a word, I know the power of a story, I know the power of a phrase, and language really is so meaningful and so valuable. […] Every data point has a face, there is a person there,…

"Getting your genetic information isn't just [of] your own, it belongs to your ancestry too."

On today's episode of The G Word, Chris Wigley, our CEO is joined by Georgia Whitton, the Senior Genomi…

"It's so important to have companies that represent [black] people. Because if you see people like you, who look like you, you're gonna feel like they have your best intentions."

On Today's episode o…

"Every disease is a rare disease because it's a disease in you, and it's interacting with you. So, this idea that there are rare diseases, and there are common diseases, [is] kind of nonsense because…

 "In cancer, it's been more challenging, because we had to get a community that hadn't really worked on the scale of data at all, to come to terms with that."

On today's episode, Matt Brown, our Chie…

"Biomedical datasets are biased towards Western white rich men typically. This means that historically underserved groups are less likely to be represented in the data."

Today on The G Word, Maxine M…

"Chris had been somewhere between a father and a brother to people in Downing Street. He wasn't just principal private secretary."

Today on The G Word, Vivienne Parry, our Head of Public Engagement…

"To gain information and insight into these, particularly, rare tumors, we will have to collect them for many, many years."

Today on The G Word, Vivienne Parry, our Head of Public Engagement at Gen…

"Mutations are the price that all animals must pay, starting with jellyfish all the way up to us humans"

Today on The G Word, Parker Moss, our Chief Commercial Officer is joined by Professor Robert (…

"We need to think about Genomics and we need to think about education because both are going to massively, massively change, and improve. I think we will be living in a very different space [in 30 ye…

“We are now in a world where there is this an abundance of data, which is only the beginning to what we're likely to be able to see in the coming years. At the same time, we have this incredible set …

“What will be important is to engage with the patient community, it will be a very important process to complement the science that we are doing and to engage with those ultimate end users. That is t…