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Rapid immune response in children protects them from COVID-19

7 Jan 2022, 11 a.m.

Researchers at the NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) BRC, UCL and the Wellcome Sanger Institute discover how differences in the immune response of adults and children can help to explain why children are less likely to fall seriously ill with COVID

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.