Scientists around the globe will gain fresh insights into the human body after UK Biobank completed the world's largest full-body imaging study.
The biomedical research project scanned 100,000 British volunteers from head to toe, producing more than one billion images of brains, hearts, bones, blood vessels, and more – which are now available to approved researchers worldwide.
“Our work really enables researchers to look inside our bodies and to see how our organs change as we get older and as we develop disease in incredible detail and on a massive scale, which just is not possible with other studies,” Naomi Allen, UK Biobank's chief scientist, told Euronews Health.
The project, which began scanning participants 11 years ago, now provides detailed scans of the body and links each image with genetic, lifestyle, health, and physical data.
"It's at least three times bigger than the next largest imaging study for research, and it's certainly the most accessible for researchers worldwide to use the data,” she added.
