PHURI's Director elected to membership of EMBO 9 July 2024
Queen Mary University of London congratulates Professor Claudia Langenberg on her recent election to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Membership.
Complex patterns of multimorbidity associated with severe COVID-19 and long COVID 8 July 2024
Early evidence that patients with (multiple) pre-existing diseases are at highest risk for severe COVID-19 has been instrumental in the pandemic to allocate critical care resources and later vaccination schemes. However, systematic studies exploring the breadth of medical diagnoses are scarce but may help to understand severe COVID-19 among patients at supposedly low risk.
The genetic causes of Raynaud’s phenomenon. 21 June 2024
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London’s Precision Healthcare Research Institute (PHURI) and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have identified the genetic causes of Raynaud’s phenomenon.
Fasting for three days can trigger weight loss but seven is too much 4 March 2024
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London monitored 12 healthy volunteers taking part in a week-long water fast and tracked changes in the levels of 3,000 proteins in their blood.
Performance of polygenic risk scores in screening, prediction, and risk stratification. 31 December 2023
Performance of polygenic risk scores in screening, prediction, and risk stratification: secondary analysis of data in the Polygenic Score Catalog.