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Biobank Draws Thousands of Volunteers in Wales
February 05, 2008 at 12:44 PM
General Health News
Biobank Cymru, part of a wider UK initiative, is seeing about 500 people a week, all of whom have donated blood and urine in the hope that their samples could hold the key to a major breakthrough in the treatment of common diseases in decades to come.
The Biobank initiative aims to recruit about 500,000 people, aged between 40 and 69, all over the UK, to try to discover how health is influenced by lifestyle, environment and genes.
Nationally, 57,000 people have been recruited at the six centres, which also include Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester and Stoke, reports Western Mail.
It is hoped that data from the hundreds of thousands of samples will ultimately be used to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of illnesses – such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, and joint problems – and to promote health throughout society.
By analysing answers, measurements and samples collected from participants, present and future researchers may be able to work out why some people develop particular diseases while others do not.
This, in turn, could lead to the discovery of new ways to prevent early death and disability.
But it will be at least 10 years or more before Biobank research bears fruit – it follows in the footsteps of other pioneering long-term studies, such as Sir Richard Doll’s, which discovered a clear link between smoking and lung cancer 50 years ago.
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