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biobank
/ ˈɪəʊˌæŋ /
noun
any large store of human biological samples for research into the genetic and environmental causes of disease
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of biobank1
Example Sentences
The authors took a massive dataset of people from the British Biobank study, which includes an array of data such as genetics, eating habits, and health outcomes.
In October, Colossal raised $50 million to launch a non-profit, The Colossal Foundation, that will develop AI- and drone-based wildlife monitoring techniques, a global biobank to preserve tissue samples from endangered species, and other projects.
Over the last two years Dr Slavé Petrovski has developed an AI platform called Milton that, using biomarkers in the UK biobank data to identify 120 diseases with a success rate of over 90%.
While biobank data cannot replace randomized controlled trials, they can unlock new information that can improve future studies and advance the evolving field of using genetics to predict treatment outcomes, Sadowski said.
"We expect that the analysis of biobank data will be most useful for widely prescribed drugs."
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