biobank
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of biobank
C20: from bio- + bank 1
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A major new research project aiming to transform care for women with heavy periods is to create the world's largest menstrual fluid biobank.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In October, Colossal raised $50 million to launch a non-profit, The Colossal Foundation, that will develop AI- and drone-based wildlife monitoring techniques, a global biobank to preserve tissue samples from endangered species, and other projects.
From Salon ● May 15, 2025
There, virologists confirmed the H5N1 diagnosis and compared the sample with a decade’s worth of influenza samples in the institute’s biobank.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2024
The dataset consisted of 342,443 Finns who had given their consent and provided a biobank sample.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
Similar to the 2019 study, Zhang and Song found that for men in the biobank who had an exclusively gay or bisexual history, their genes explained about 23% of that behavior.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2024
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