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 disease, others are grazed by …
We ended 2021 on a high note with many new customers on board from across the world – USA, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, etc. The best part is that we won …
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 masses of data on people …
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 ears”, says the British Tinnitus …
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 genomic results to individual participants …
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 affect those efforts. It also …
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 patient consent are an essential …
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 to PDAC risk. An independent …
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 get the sense that there …
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) with a range of other …