The UK Biobank houses an extensive collection of biological samples and health information from 500,000 volunteers, providing clues to the genetic and environmental drivers of disease. Naomi Allen, the project’s chief scientist and an epidemiologist at Oxford University, discusses the exploding body of findings from this 20-year-old biomedical resource and the prospects for the expansion of this biopharmaceutical treasure trove.

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英国生物银行 20

英国生物银行收集了大量来自 500,000 名志愿者的生物样本和健康信息，为疾病的遗传和环境驱动因素提供线索。该项目的首席科学家兼牛津大学流行病学家 Naomi Allen 讨论了这一具有 20 年历史的生物医学资源的大量发现，以及扩大这一生物制药宝库的前景。