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A Glasgow resident became the 50,000th volunteer to take part in the world’s most ambitious internal organ imaging study. Collection of these data is helping scientists to diagnose, treat, and potentially prevent diseases like dementia, heart disease, arthritis and cancer.

In a major step forward for the advancement of genomics research, today Whole Genome Sequencing data for the first 200,000 UK Biobank participants has been made available to researchers through the recently launched Research Analysis Platform.

These de-identified data can now be accessed by approved researchers through the Research Analysis Platform, along with the 300,000 exome sequencing data released in September.

UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database and research resource, announces today the launch of a uniquely powerful and innovative research platform that allows approved researchers to access and analyse the entire UK Biobank database securely, in the cloud, from anywhere in the world.

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.

UK Biobank's imaging assessment centres have re-opened to continue working towards our goal to scan 100,000 participants.

A note from UK Biobank's Principal Investigator, Professor Sir Rory Collins

NHS Digital GP Dataset - Joint Statement from the Medical and Social Research Community

The 20,000th researcher is Enrique Cañedo Guerra, a PhD student from the School of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

UK Biobank, the large-scale biomedical database and research resource, has today added to its growing database the first tranche of data from a study that is measuring a range of circulating metabolomic biomarkers in 120,000 participants.