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Genomics discussions tend to be human-centric, but there’s a lot more we can learn in plants and animals. Veterinary medicine is exploding, and many of the omics advances discussed here could easily be applied to that arena.

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We are currently helping researchers find participants for several clinical trials, including in digestive conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and several rare disorders. We completed a pharmacogenomics study with Owlstone Medical, which is based in Cambridge, and also have work ongoing with the University of Liverpool looking at stomach ulcers and genetic variants, and another with the University of Cambridge on the genetics of autism spectrum disorder.

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An eleven-year-old born with otoferlin gene (OTOF)-mediated hearing loss was the first patient to receive this gene therapy in the study.

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. The patient is literally hearing sound for the first time in his life. He can hear his father’s voice, the sound of a car passing by and even the scissors clipping his hair