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Yourgene Health is today unveiling the Yourgene Microdeletions Plugin Accelerator phase, following a successful pilot project with LifeStrands Genomics. This Accelerator represents a new era in Yourgene’s approach to delivery of NIPT testing solutions, with a focus on ‘Collaboration to Perform’. Working as a partnership, rather than the traditional laboratory/manufacturer relationship, represents a shared commitment to ensuring high-quality and performance-driven testing, ultimately delivering better outcomes for patients.

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The IONA ^® test is a non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) for pregnant women which estimates the risk of a fetus having Down’s syndrome (Trisomy 21), Edwards’ syndrome (Trisomy 18) and Patau’s syndrome (Trisomy 13). The test is performed by analysing cell-free placental-fetal DNA from a maternal blood sample. The test is suitable for women who are at least 10 weeks pregnant, prior to ten weeks there is a risk that there would be insufficient placental-fetal cell

The ‘New Year's resolution’ is a tradition almost all of us are familiar with, in which a person resolves to accomplish a personal goal, continue good habits or change undesirable ones all with the intention of self-improvement. A study of over 800 million activity data points on the exercise platform Strava found that today, January 19th, is the most common day for a New Year’s resolution to be abandoned ( 1 ). If you are reading this

The diagnostic testing business has always been dynamic and opportunistic , but nothing could have stretched the definition of these 2 words like a pandemic.

Since the launch of Yourgene Genomic Services 6 months into this global pandemic – born from a legacy, well established NIPT service laboratory, a modest acquisition, and an unprecedented national genomic testing demand, we have vastly expanded our testing capacity by converting every spare inch of underutilised office space created by remote

“Good for you, good for us but is it good for everybody?”
Overprescribing within the NHS – October 2021

The NHS is currently the 5th largest global employer; with over 1.3m employees and receiving around 10% of the UK Government’s annual spending. It is estimated that the NHS deals with 336 million ‘patient visits’ per year, - many of whom will receive some form of at least one ‘prescription’ per visit and at a current charge in

According to National Today, the website dedicated to highlighting every day celebrations and holidays, August 18 ^th is ‘National Couple’s Day’ – a day to celebrate the important relationships in life. Whilst not an official holiday or observance in any country, the clinical team at Yourgene Health wanted to use this opportunity to reflect upon the pivotal role that genomics plays in relationships across the world.

Earlier this year a study, published in Nature Human Behaviour,

Yourgene Health has recently launched IONA ^® Care , an advanced prenatal screening test that performs whole-genome analysis to measure the likelihood that a pregnant woman is carrying a fetus with one the most common trisomies (trisomy 21, 18 and 13), any other Autosomal Aneuploidy (AA) or a Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy (SCA). IONA ^® Care is available from the Yourgene Genomic Services laboratory in Manchester, UK. The test is available as a menu, enabling pregnant women, their families

The COVID-19 pandemic presented huge challenges worldwide. In response to the unprecedented need for COVID-19 PCR testing, the UK government set up a new network of Lighthouse laboratories across the country to provide the required capacity for testing thousands of samples each day. These laboratories proved a vital part of the test and trace strategy but were also under immense pressure to meet their targets and, following an investigation by Panorama , it was found that

Innovation and creativity are two pillars at the heart of technological and scientific advances. The instrumental role they play has been recognised by the United Nations (UNN), who have designated a special day to raise awareness of the importance of innovation in culture and economic growth worldwide: 21st April. World Creativity and Innovation Day (UNN) is a day to encourage people to “think outside the box”, find new perspectives which push personal growth, identify different

In recent years, fertility treatments and the fact women are having babies later has made multiple births more common. In 2016, around 12,000 sets of twins and about 190 sets of triplets or more were born in the UK. That means about 1 in every 65 births in the UK today are twins, triplets or more. ¹ Extensive studies have been carried out for cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing in singleton pregnancies with sample numbers into

Recent reports in the media from a collection of European countries suggest that there may be cause for concern with regards to the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and abnormal blood clotting. According to Norway’s medicines agency (NoMA), four new cases of “serious blood clotting in adults” have been identified following a recent review (1). Austria have suspended the use of one particular batch of the vaccine after two events, including an individual diagnosed with multiple

The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since the beginning of the global COVID-19 outbreak, the diagnostic and research community has undertaken an unprecedented effort to understand how best to manage, eradicate and prevent the disease. In recent months we have seen the rollout of ambitious vaccination schedules worldwide, as well as the strengthening of