UK Biobank
Why the UK wants to share everything it knows about the genetics of 500,000 Britons
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world ...
How well-intentioned research into ‘gay genes’ spawned controversial DNA screening app
A giant collection of carefully cataloged genomes, called the UK Biobank, was about to become available to researchers. … To [researcher ...
500,000-genome-strong UK Biobank offers ‘wisdom from crowds’
Precision medicine aims to improve treatments for individuals, but to do so it needs information from crowds. Only by tracking ...
Understanding the genetics of height—and why it matters in the fight against many human disorders
Hoping to help researchers find links between diseases and mutations, the UK Biobank opened its vault last summer, allowing access ...