ROLL up, roll up: the biobank is open for business. Medical, lifestyle and genetic data from 500,000 middle-aged Britons is to be made available to medical researchers worldwide through the Biobank UK project, which has spent five years recruiting volunteers.
The idea is to unravel the forces driving common diseases by tracking the fate of the volunteers, aged 40 to 69, in the years ahead.
All volunteers supplied blood and urine samples, and thorough lifestyle data, making the biobank the most comprehensive of its kind, says Andrew Trehearne, information officer at Biobank UK.
In December, Biobank UK finalised its procedures for allowing researchers to access the data. "Anyone can apply to use the data, as long as their project is in the public interest and could bring health benefits," says Trehearne. The not-for-profit database will launch in March.
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