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The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has now entered its third year. Since its inception, it has infected people differently — while some witness severe
We ended 2021 on a high note with many new customers on board from across the world – USA, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, etc. The best
The world’s biggest medical imaging study – part of the UK Biobank project – has scanned its 50,000th participant in Newcastle. The vast study collects
The UK urgently needs a biobank library of human tissue samples so experts can study and find better treatments, or a cure, for “ringing in the
Research biobanks and other human research studies that collect and analyze DNA are increasingly confronted with the question of whether and how to return actionable
In the race to harness medical data for artificial intelligence tools and personalized health care, a new study shows how easily unintentional design bias can
The success of biobanking is directly linked to the willingness of people to donate their biological materials for research and storage. Ethical issues related to
An association between diabetes mellitus (DM), especially, new-onset DM (NODM), and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is known; others have constructed polygenic risk scores (PRS) related
Myopia, or short-sightedness, is a significant global health problem estimated to affect 1406 million people (about 23% of the world’s population) as of 2000. And if you
The biobanks have developed rapidly. They typically aggregate genetic information such as WGS (whole genome sequencing), WES (whole exome sequencing), and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms)