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Back in lockdown: adjusting to the new rules: information for families

18 Nov 2020, 11:25 a.m.

We knew that 2020 was going to be a strange year and it’s certainly feeling like the weirdness isn’t coming to an end yet. Now that England is back in lockdown (other parts of the UK have been in lockdown or faced restrictions already), it is understandab

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GOSH surgeons perform revolutionary eye gene therapy

17 Nov 2020, 4:03 p.m.

(Image above taken pre-COVID-19) Surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have carried out pioneering eye gene therapy treatment for rare form of genetic blindness following 10 years of research.

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A wooden wall in the Zayed Centre for Research (ZCR). It has the ZCR logo and patterned white lights on it. In front of the wall is a corridor.

Inflammatory syndrome in children is not caused by a special strain of coronavirus

16 Nov 2020, 1:38 p.m.

The world’s first genetic study of coronavirus from children with inflammatory syndrome PIMS-TS, led by researchers at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH), suggests characteristics of the human host, rather than of the virus itself

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A wooden wall in the Zayed Centre for Research (ZCR). It has the ZCR logo and patterned white lights on it. In front of the wall is a corridor.

Inflammatory syndrome in children is not caused by a special strain of coronavirus

16 Nov 2020, 1:38 p.m.

The world’s first genetic study of coronavirus from children with inflammatory syndrome PIMS-TS, led by researchers at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH), suggests characteristics of the human host, rather than of the virus itself

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GOSH celebrates one year anniversary of the opening of the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Diseases in Children

16 Nov 2020, 10:35 a.m.

It’s been a year since the Zayed Centre for Research opened its doors to patients, clinicians and researchers from across Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and UCL, and to celebrate we’re taking a look back at its work and achievements.

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