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Biomedical Research Centre news

Role of important protein improves understanding of autoimmune diseases

22 Mar 2016, 4:59 p.m.

Researchers – led by Great Ormond Street BRC-supported Professor Tessa Crompton in collaboration with the Paediatric Department at Oxford University – have identified the role of a key protein in normal development of the thymus, an important organ of the

Using new wearable technology to monitor Niemann-Pick disease

22 Mar 2016, 4:15 p.m.

A smartphone app, combined with wearable technology, will allow doctors to remotely monitor patients with conditions that limit their ability to voluntarily move their muscles. The app, known as 'aparito', uses a motion-tracking writsband to record the mo

The Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre at GOSH and the ICH is a Muscular Dystrophy UK Paediatric Centre for Research and Clinical Excellence

Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre confirmed as Centre of Paediatric Clinical and Research Excellence

22 Mar 2016, 3:37 p.m.

The Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre has been confirmed as a Centre of Paediatric Clinical and Research Excellence by Muscular Dystrophy UK.

Prevention of neural tube defects in women taking additional supplements

22 Mar 2016, 2:57 p.m.

BRC-supported researchers Professors Andrew Copp and Nicholas Greene have led research which suggests that women who are at risk of having children with neural tube defects such as spina bifida may be able to reduce this risk by taking inositol (Vitamin B

Scientist with a multiwell pipette preparing samples for genetic analysis

Identification of genetic mutation linked to complications associated with common birthmarks

18 Mar 2016, 5:42 p.m.

Research led by BRC-supported Dr Veronica Kinsler has found that a subset of a common type of birthmark, which is associated with severe complications, is caused by activating mutations in the genes GNAII and GNAQ. These findings could lead to early ident