Tag: Data Repository
UK Biobank Launches World’s Largest Study of Blood Proteins
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The study will measure 5,400 proteins in 600,000 samples, offering an unprecedented understanding of protein-level changes over mid-to-late life and their impact on...
New Multi-Omics Biobank Initiative to Accelerate Cancer Biomarker Discovery and Precision Medicine
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Blood samples will be collected at key stages of the patient journey to support biomarker discovery using advanced multi-omics approaches, including RNA and...
UK Biobank Leads Landmark Epigenetic Partnership to Uncover Root Causes of Cancer and Dementia
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UK Biobank and Oxford Nanopore partner to create a comprehensive epigenetic dataset for health research.
New epigenetic data will help uncover disease causes...
World’s Largest ALS iPSC Biorepository Opens New Frontiers in Disease Research and Drug Discovery
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The new ALS biorepository offers the world’s largest collection of patient-specific iPSCs and multi-omics data for research.
Over 1,800 iPSC lines have already...
Verisense Launches Mega AI-powered Digital Biobank for Enhanced Research and Data Accessibility
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Verisense Digital Biobank now houses data from over one million individuals, with plans to double this by the end of 2024.
The biobank...
UK Biobank Receives £16 Million Investment from Amazon Web Services and UK Government to...
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AWS provides £8 million worth of cloud computing storage to UK Biobank, enhancing data management and AI capabilities.
The UK government matches this...
Launching the Future of Space Health: Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) Biobanking Initiative
In a recent landmark study published on Nature, a majority of the researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, along with collaborators from various other institutions,...
First Indigenous-Led Tribal Data Repository Awarded $9 Million Funding from NIH
In a significant stride toward improving Indigenous health, the US National Institutes of Health has granted $9 million to establish the first tribal data...
BBMRI-ERIC Launches the Innovative Federated Platform that Benefits both Biobanks and Researchers
The biobanking community has made a significant leap forward with the launch of the Federated Platform, an initiative driven by BBMRI-ERIC. This platform introduces...
UK Biobank Revolutionizes Global Medical Research with World’s Largest Genome Sequencing Dataset
In a groundbreaking development, UK Biobank has released a vast dataset from whole genome sequencing of half a million participants, a move poised to...



















