#Biobank
#23andMe Sale Shows Your #Genetic Data Is Worth $17
#Regeneron is a drug company that “intends to acquire 23andMe’s Personal #Genome Service (PGS), Total Health and Research Services business lines, together with its #Biobank and associated assets, for $256 million and for 23andMe to continue all consumer genome services uninterrupted,”
#privacy #dna #genetics
https://www.404media.co/23andme-sale-shows-your-genetic-data-is-worth-17/
My word assumes biobank can be hyphenated as bi-obank.
Hello, all my fellow bi-obanks.
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 18th, 2025
#pattern #eastward-shift #Mississippi #Tennessee #bioelectricity #epithelial # microelectrode #calcium #AI #age-related #Biobank #saliency #RNS #Wearable-LLM #PTSD #EEG #Observatory #hydrothermal #magma #steam
Professor Chris Ponting on “Replicated Blood-Based Biomarkers” for ME in Big Data Pre-Print Study
By David Tuller, DrPH
Along with several colleagues, Professor Chris Ponting, a geneticist at the University of Edinburgh and a leading ME/CFS researcher, recently posted a pre-print called “Replicated blood-based biomarkers for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis not explicable by inactivity.” (A pre-print is a paper that has not yet been formally peer-reviewed.) For this analysis, the investigators examined data for more than 3,000 molecular and cellular traits in samples from the UK Biobank, including from 1,455 ME cases and 131,303 controls. They found 116 traits that were significant among both female and male ME patients.
Earlier today, I spoke about the study with Professor Ponting, who is also the lead investigator for DecodeME, a major genome-wide association study of ME/CFS.
Canada set to lose irreplaceable 'treasure trove' of fungi
Biobanking #Corals: One Woman’s Mission to Save Coral Genetics in #TurksAndCaicos to Rebuild #Reefs of the Future https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15102024/saving-coral-genetics-in-turks-and-caicos-to-rebuild-reefs-of-the-future/
"Alizee Zimmermann saw corals dying en masse and built a living bank to hold corals on land... Nearly 200 coral colonies are housed in this lab serving as a #biobank for some of the most vulnerable reef-building species at-risk of extinction due to #ClimateChange and disease in the #Atlantic Ocean and the #Caribbean."
Scientists want to send endangered species’ cells to the moon - The ‘lunar ark’ would preserve samples from animals and other organisms #LunarArk #moon #EndangeredSpecies #biobank
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/endangered-species-moon-safekeeping
Australia:
If you’re living with ME/CFS, Long COVID or want to volunteer as a ‘healthy control’ for medical research studies, signing up and becoming an AusME Registry participant is the single easiest way to become involved in research! Learn more today
#chronicillness #myalgicencphalopmyelitis #chronicfatiguesyndrome #invisibleillness #chronicfatigue #mecfsawarenss #me #longcovid #biobank #registry #AusME
@mecfs @longcovid @auscovid19 #auscovid19
🗓️Save the date! Join us on 15 May at 14:15 CET for an online conversation with the EBISC2 project, and find out how they made a stem cell line #biobank self-sustaining. More 👉https://europa.eu/!vDM374 #iPSC #StemCell #HealthResearch #MedicalResearch #IHITransformingHealth #EUResearch #EU #HorizonEU
Nach 10 Jahren steht der German #Biobank Node so gut da wie nie – mit akademischen humanen Biobanken an 36 Uni-Standorten. Jetzt muss dessen langfristige Finanzierung gesichert werden … — Karin Lauschke berichtet mehr: https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/2960.php
We are hosting the #EASST4S2024 open panel Public Participation and Health Equality in Future Biobanking
Link: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14203
This is where art, bioscience and sociology meet!
Send us your ideas by 12 Feb. We welcome research papers, visual and interactive exhibits.
#biobank #HealthInequalities #BAME #PublicEngagment #sciencecommunication #ethnicminority #RacialEquality
🔭 #LegislativeObservatory: The position of the #EUCouncil on the #EHDS (European Health #DataSpace) is now also available:
http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-16048-2023-REV-1/EN/pdf
Key differences from the Parliament's position on secondary use of #HealthData are 1) no required opt-in for "genetic" data, but member states may impose additional restrictions [Art. 33 (5)]; 2) "other human molecular data" (Omics data) [Art. 33 (1) lit. ea] are treated equally to "genetic" data and need opt-in and 3) no opt-in for #Biobank data.
🔭 #LegislativeObservatory: #EuropeanParliament has just voted in favor of the #EHDS (European Health #DataSpace) compromise version of #ENVI and #LIBE , rejecting further amendments (ex. 555):
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2023-0395_EN.html
Relevant changes for secondary use of #HealthData are 1) an opt-in requirement for sharing of genetic and #biobank data (Art. 33 (5a), Rec. 39a) and 2) allowing member states to impose further restrictions on data falling within Art. 9 #GDPR (Rec. 3a). #Trilog will start tomorrow!
»Sensitive #health information donated for #medical #research by half a million UK citizens has been shared with #insurance companies despite a pledge that it would not be.
[…] #UK #Biobank opened up its vast biomedical database to insurance sector firms several times between 2020 and 2023. The data was provided to insurance consultancy and tech firms for projects to create digital tools that help insurers predict a person’s risk of getting a chronic disease.«
What a fabulous resource this will be, linking high throughput #proteomics with #genomic and #disease information in large populations.
#biobank #genetics #infectiousdiseases
Large-scale plasma proteomics comparisons through genetics and disease associations - Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06563-x?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202310&sap-outbound-id=50AB798CAC29F444BC18EBEC212E00B93517EC66
Ancestral genetic components are consistently associated with the complex trait landscape in European biobanks
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.04.560881v1
The genetic structure in Europe was mostly shaped by admixture between the Western Hunter-Gatherer
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Heart rate, platelet count, monocyte percentage and many other traits show stratification similar to height and pigmentation traits, likely targets of selection and divergence across ancestral groups.
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