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Thousands of UK Biobank participants are being asked to take part in a major government study to measure the extent of coronavirus infection in different regions across the UK.
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Crucial new data on the health of 500,000 UK Biobank participants are being made available to scientists tackling the COVID-19 emergency.
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A Shrewsbury resident became the 30,000th volunteer at the Stockport assessment centre, which supports the work of two other scanning centres.
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Collaboration between UK Biobank, Regeneron and GSK delivers significant new data and genetic insights.
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A £200 million investment from government, industry and charity cements UK Biobank’s reputation as a world-leading health resource to tackle the widest range of common and chronic diseases – including dementia, mental illness, cancer and heart disease.
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A scientist from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata has become UK Biobank’s 10,000th approved researcher.
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A new collaboration of leading life sciences companies will speed up the provision of UK Biobank exome sequenced data to researchers worldwide, it is announced today.
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Comprehensive metabolic biomarker profiles of the world’s largest health database to be analysed in 30 months.
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UK Biobank is already is five times larger than the largest population research imaging study conducted anywhere in the world to date.
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UK Biobank announces today a major initiative to sequence the full genomes of 50,000 UK Biobank volunteer participants.
