US EditionUK Biobank Completes World's Largest 100,000-Volunteer Whole-Body Imaging Study
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 15 – The UK Biobank project collected over 30 petabytes of anonymised health data from 100,000 volunteers to support medical research and early disease detection.
- Hitting a major milestone, the project completed 100,000 imaging sessions, with scans conducted across four sites in England over an 11-year study.
- The non-profit project was established by the Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust charity, Department of Health, and Scottish government in 2003, with funding from the British Heart Foundation, Calico, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
- The resource is used in more than 60 countries by over 20,000 researchers, supporting nearly 1,700 peer-reviewed papers using Biobank data.
- Professor Sir Rory Collins said `the unprecedented scale of this imaging project- more than 10 times bigger than anything that existed before`, adding `combining these images from different parts of the body with all the genetic and lifestyle information, scientists are getting a far better understanding of how our bodies work`.
- Next, the project will re-scan 60,000 participants to track aging, with an AI tool developed from heart images used in over 90 countries to analyse scans in seconds.
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