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What do young people want from Artificial Intelligence in healthcare?

18 May 2022, 4 p.m.

Artificial intelligence in healthcare is a rapidly growing field. Children and teenagers often have insightful questions about AI, but are rarely involved in the development of new technologies. See how we're changing this...

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New funding for autoimmune condition at GOSH

18 May 2022, 11:04 a.m.

Researchers at GOSH and University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) are one of ten national teams to receive funding from a coalition of immune-related medical research charities.

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How new gene therapy can aid children with severe immune disorder

4 Apr 2022, 10 a.m.

GOSH researchers, working with international collaborators, have shown that a new gene therapy has long term benefits for children with the severe immune disorder, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome.

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COVID-19 vaccination study opens at GOSH

10 Mar 2022, 10:20 a.m.

For the first time, patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Southampton Children’s Hospital who are aged 12-17 years and immunocompromised are taking part in research to work out how they respond to COVID-19 vaccination.

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New insights into genes behind severe Covid-19 in adults and children

8 Mar 2022, 3:36 p.m.

The world’s largest study of the genetics of critical Covid-19 involving more than 57,000 people, and many of our patients at GOSH, has revealed fresh details about some of the biological mechanisms behind the severe form of the disease.

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