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Amelia and Lena together outside. Amelia is in an wheelchair. They both make faces at the camera.

Pre-screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy could change lives

7 Jan 2022, 6 a.m.

A team from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health (ICH) have shown how ‘blood spot’ testing new-borns could identify children who will go on to develop Spinal Muscular Atrophy, (SMA).

A surgeon in an operating theatre, with a screen behind him.

New funding enables vital research in childhood cancer treatment

5 Jan 2022, 3:53 p.m.

Special molecules called fluorophores could ‘light up’ living cancer cells in future treatment of neuroblastoma, with new research by our GOSH doctors underway.

Amelia and her twin sister Lily sitting down and smiling

GOSH mum Layla recounts her daughter's stay on Bear Ward

5 Jan 2022, 10:54 a.m.

Last year Layla’s baby daughter, Amelia, arrived at GOSH for surgery at just nine weeks whilst her twin sister was waiting for her at home.

GOSH celebrates second anniversary of Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children

4 Jan 2022, 2:04 a.m.

To celebrate its recent second birthday, we’re looking back at a remarkable two years at the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children.

Gene therapy research boosts SMA outlook

20 Dec 2021, 9 a.m.

Researchers and doctors at GOSH have long been at the forefront of developing new treatments for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) and new research this year is helping us understand how Zolgensma, a gene therapy, can help.