5 Jumps
Phoenix Game Engine (Lua) 0.02
5 Jumps
Scenery Beta 08: Luarry v1
Posted Aug 22, 2006 at 06:52PM by Jex H.
Listed in:
Science
Tags:
Andy Burnham,
UK Biobank,
Diabetes
Page 1
Ó
|
The world's largest medical experiment, spearheaded by Health Minister Andy Burnham, will involve the collection of DNA samples from 500,000 Britons to discover the genetic basis of cancer, diabetes, dementia, and other killer diseases. Blood and urine samples will be collected from volunteers aged 40 to 69 over the next four years, with a local three-month pilot phase to be conducted in Manchester involving 3,800 participants. The UK Biobank would be implementing this project nationwide from the end of 2006 onwards. Given the grandiosity of the project, some are concerned that it would take a long time to get verifiable results that could help in the immediate prevention of killer diseases, but scientists believe that in the long term, the project could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and help to explain why certain people react differently to medications. A total of 10 million samples are expected to be collected from the half million volunteers for the whole project, from which the genetic data will be cross-referenced against information about the volunteers' subsequent health, but only with their permission of course. Concerns as to whether the project's results will be accessible to medical institutions and pharmaceutical organizations all over the world were answered by the UK BioBank, and said that researchers from around the world will be able to apply for access to the resource but strict security systems will also be implemented to protect the privacy of the participants. The 61 million-pound project will be funded by the British government, the Wellcome Trust medical research charity and other sources. |
|||
|
|||
Featured Content
QJ.NET Blog Network  |
|
| MyQJ | Feed / PDA |
| MyQJ | RSS / PDA |
| Blog of Blogs | Feed / PDA |
| QJ.NET | RSS / PDA |
| Gaming Consoles | Feed / PDA |
| Nintendo DS | RSS / PDA |
| PlayStation 3 | RSS / PDA |
| PSP Updates | RSS / PDA |
| Wii | RSS / PDA |
| Xbox 360 | RSS / PDA |
| PC Gaming | Feed / PDA |
| Age of Conan | RSS / PDA |
| Games for Windows | RSS / PDA |
| MMORPG | RSS / PDA |
| Tabula Rasa | RSS / PDA |
| World of Warcraft | RSS / PDA |
| Science | Feed / PDA |
| Science | RSS / PDA |
| Technology | Feed / PDA |
| Apple | RSS / PDA |
| Gadgets | RSS / PDA |
| Mobile | RSS / PDA |
| Photography | RSS / PDA |
| Tech | RSS / PDA |
Add QJ.NET
User Favorites - August
| Most Commented | |
| (86) | |
| (81) | |
| (68) | |
| (65) | |
| (55) | |
| (43) | |
| (39) | |
| (37) | |
| (34) | |
| (33) | |
| (32) | |
| (32) | |
| (29) | |
| (28) | |
| (24) | |
| (24) | |
| (23) | |
| (21) | |
| (19) | |
| (19) | |
User Favorites - August
Apple
(3188)E3
(650)Gadgets
(3640)Games for Windows
(5978)MMORPG
(7680)Mobile
(2787)News
(848)Nintendo DS
(7074)Opinions & Analysis
(78)Photography
(446)PlayStation 3
(13213)PSP
(13444)Rumors
(168)Science
(2789)Site News
(45)Tabula Rasa
(419)Wii
(11712)World of Warcraft
(3695)Xbox 360
(14944)
Archives
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
May 2005
