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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.
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A vast trove of genetic data on half a million Britons becomes available today - 20th July 2017 - for research into a wide range of diseases.
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Pharmaceutical companies, UK-based GSK and US-based Regeneron, are undertaking a very significant initiative using UK Biobank samples that could usher in a new era of drug development for a wide range of diseases.