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LifeArc provides £5 million funding to increase understanding of the role of genetic risk factors in patient response to COVID-19

February 15, 2021: Medical research charity, LifeArc, announces today that it is providing £5 million funding to support the work of the GenOMICC COVID-19 Study, led by the GenOMICC consortium in partnership with Genomics England. The study, launched in May 2020, is using genomics to investigate why some people are affected more severely by COVID-19, […]
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Alliance enables clinical trial of experimental treatment for epidermolysis bullosa
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Keytruda: a new generation cancer treatment
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