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

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

From Science Daily

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

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 group's genome-wide association study of 130,153 U.S.-based 23andMe research participants was compared with a similar UK Biobank database of 334,649 Britons, revealing consistent positive genetic associations between coffee and harmful health outcomes such as obesity and substance use.

From Science Daily

"But then, in the UK Biobank, you see the opposite pattern, where they're negatively genetically correlated. This is not what we expected."

From Science Daily