Latest News
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UK Biobank has today added the next tranche of exome data to its biomedical database, which now includes exome sequencing data on 300,000 volunteer participants.
Professor Sir Rory Collins, CEO and Principal Investigator of UK Biobank, outlines how access to de-identified GP data for all UK Biobank’s 500,000 volunteers will transform the database’s research potential overnight.
Latest ‘Organisation’ News
Learn about UK Biobank’s plans for future procurement for the Research Analysis Platform and other infrastructure.
Movement towards the completion of our new home in Manchester Science Park continues as fit-out works begin and new CGI images reveal a first look at our future-ready, net zero lab and office space.
Latest ‘Brain’ things
(publications AND research, filtered by ‘Brain’ Disease Area) – I don’t think this can every really be sorted correctly as multiple date keys…
Latest ‘Brain’ publications
Latest ‘Brain’ research
DNA from nearly 750,000 people, including UK Biobank participants, reveals genes that make people prone to persistent Epstein-Barr virus infections, which are linked to rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and many other diseases.
There should be more focus on finding treatments that target the ‘Alzheimer’s gene’, researchers argue.
More awareness of Alexander disease, a progressive and disabling brain condition, could stop misdiagnoses and missed treatment opportunities.
UK Biobank’s 15-minute brain-imaging method allows doctors at 11 memory clinics to offer patients more tailored treatments.
Latest projects
Circadian rhythms play a critical role in biological regulation, and their disruption is associated with the pathophysiology of chronic diseases. Previous research has been limited…
This four-year doctoral project will leverage UK Biobank’s extensive cohort and multidimensional data to systematically investigate pharmacological and non-pharmacological factors influencing neurological and psychiatric disorders,…