UK Biobank samples are kept in deep freeze Wellcome Images
Half a million people who have volunteered their genetic information for scientific research will not be informed if researchers discover that they are genetically vulnerable to the coronavirus.
UK Biobank has been collecting this information, along with other health data, for more than a decade in order to create its widely used database for research. Now, the hospital data of participants who have received a test for covid-19 or died as a result of the illness will be .
The hope is that researchers…
