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A collection of century old tumour samples held at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has helped shed light on the genetic mutations that cause some of the rarest childhood cancers.

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Laboratory Medicine will be hosting an open afternoon in the ICH Kennedy Lecture Theatre to showcase the diverse and complex work carried out in the labs around a theme of "Rare Diseases".

Scientists in Chemical Pathology at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), in conjunction with the UCL Institute of Child Health, have now established a fully comprehensive diagnostic and monitoring service for Pompe disease.

The North East Thames Regional Genetics Laboratory, based at Great Ormond Street Hospital, has launched its own non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) service to screen for Down's syndrome.

Staff from the Great Ormond Street laboratories have been succesful in two catagories of the 2015 Healthcare Science awards which were annouced on March 30th.

Great Ormond Street Hospital, which runs the UK's largest newborn screening lab, is to take part in a pilot to screen newborn babies for five more diseases.

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