Research from King's College London reveals that social factors such as education level, financial stability, and the areas ...

People from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience COVID-19 symptoms for longer, new research suggests.The ...

The lingering effects of COVID-19 continue to unfold, revealing new threats that extend far beyond the initial infection. A comprehensive study of 10,000 UK Biobank participants has uncovered a ...

The UK Biobank is widely regarded as the world’s largest and most comprehensive health database, boasting an extensive array of genetic, clinical, and lifestyle data from half a million ...

The data came from 1,252 participants in the UK Biobank who were part of a substudy on COVID-19. They each donated blood at two timepoints, once within six years prior to the pandemic and again ...

After five years of painstaking lab work, more than 350,000 hours of genome sequencing and £200 million ($253 million) in investment, UK Biobank has completed and released the full sequencing ...

Five years ago, just months after South Africa’s first COVID-19 case was identified, two University of Cape Town (UCT) professors spearheaded a groundbreaking healthcare worker cohort study.

The work was based on data from more than 490,000 people, all of whom are registered with the UK Biobank ... exposure to novel pathogens such as COVID-19 and bird flu, and environmental factors ...