Monthly Archives: December 2008

The Human Genetics Commission visited Cardiff last week and I was lucky enough to be invited to give a presentation about the National DNA Database on Trial Project. I was joined by 8 of the young people who participated in … Continue reading →

…but you can’t take the lab out of the boy! I’ve recently returned from the US having attended a couple of excellent nursing / genetics meetings (see Maggie’s Phantastic: Phoenix and Philadelphia blog from Nov 26). I came back via … Continue reading →

Wales GenePark has two events taking place in the New Year which may be of interest. Clinical Medicne in the Genome Era is a 2 day (Feb 26 & 27) international symposium to review recent developments and current trends in … Continue reading →

Then we received this email via our Telling Stories site, from an educator in St Louis: ”… I was doing a literature review and came across your web site in the References. You have no idea how grateful I am … Continue reading →

Hot off the wire: The NHS National Genetics Education and Development Centre’s Family History series of resources (see blog below) has, this afternoon, come runner up in the National Awards in London in the Diagnostics & Therapeutics Category.

Great news this week from colleagues at the NHS National Genetics Education and Development Centre. Our Family History series of resources (which includes fact sheets, drawing tool and video scenario for drawing and taking a family history) won “The One … Continue reading →

Hello, I’d like to introduce myself, I’m Rhian, the new project officer for Telling Stories. I’ll be working on the website, uploading more stories, collecting new ones and extending the range of professional groups covered to include medics. Please feel … Continue reading →