biobank
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of biobank
C20: from bio- + bank 1
Example Sentences
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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
Over the last two years Dr Slavé Petrovski has developed an AI platform called Milton that, using biomarkers in the UK biobank data to identify 120 diseases with a success rate of over 90%.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024
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
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
Among other things, this biobank stores tissue from children with brain tumors.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023
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