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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.

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.

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

Here at Yourgene Health, we are very proud that a large proportion of our genomic technologies and services business, including senior leadership and laboratory managers, are powerful women. We believe it is important to showcase the impressive range of talent we are lucky to have, including our women and girls in science.

In light of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we would like to place a spotlight on a few members

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…

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…