biobank

/ ˈbaɪəʊˌbæŋk /

noun

1. any large store of human biological samples for research into the genetic and environmental causes of disease

Word History and Origins

Origin of biobank¹

C20: from bio- + bank ¹

Example Sentences

They developed a polygenic risk score, based on the genome association scan, and applied it to a separate dataset of 347,585 individuals in UK Biobank.

From Science Daily

“If equivalent rates of fake data were discovered in any other field—for example, if 82% of people in the UK Biobank or 17% of galaxies detected by the Hubble telescope were revealed to be imaginary—a major scandal would ensue. In demography, however, such revelations seem to barely merit citation,” the paper says.

From Science Magazine

Among the 89,530 study participants of the UK biobank, the average age was 62 years and 56.4% were women.

From Science Daily

Researchers looked at nearly a decade’s worth of data from approximately 118,000 adults who participated in the UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical study looking into health, genetics and lifestyle patterns.

From Salon

The UK Biobank’s research resource is “a major contributor to the advancement of modern medicine and treatment and has enabled several scientific discoveries that improve human health,” according to its official website.

From Salon