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UK Biobank, the large-scale biomedical database and research resource, has today made available to approved researchers the data from a study into telomere length.

UK Biobank, the large-scale biomedical database and research resource, announces today the launch of a study that will enable scientists to monitor the long-term health effects of COVID-19, sometimes known as “Long COVID”.

UK Biobank, the UK’s major biomedical database and research resource, today reports the 6-month results of a major government-backed study of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

In response to the increasing pressure placed on NHS scanning capacity during the coronavirus pandemic, UK Biobank signed a 12 month contract with the NHS in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) to lease its Bristol Imaging assessment centre.

The Medical Research Council, UK Biobank’s long-term funder and supporter, announced today that Professor Sir Rory Collins has been awarded the MRC Millennium Medal 2020.

The Pharma Proteomics Project, commissioned by a biopharmaceutical consortium, represents a major step forward in ‘proteomics’ and will further enhance the UK Biobank database and research resource.

200,000 participant exomes now accessible for researchers to advance human genetics

UK Biobank has now made available to researchers, a greater wealth of data from newly released linked electronic patient records to enable greater understanding of COVID-19.

UK Biobank, a long-term study of health data from 500,000 UK volunteers, announces today that it is developing its own cloud-based Data Analysis Platform in order to enable its extensive medical data to be accessed more readily by a broader range of researchers around the world.

Data provided by GP practices will be linked to records of existing Biobank participants to aid researchers and scientists in their understanding of COVID-19.