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there are other biobanks and other countries but none has been going is long as uk biobank and they haven'tdifferent diseases. why did you feel it was important to join this study. you are used to asking people if you can film them. did that play into the idea of allowing them to film you, in a way? i have been scanned in several countries and in many parts of the uk, i have had my brain scanned, and i have been on medical trials, mostly as a healthy volunteer, and i think it is important, a bit like being a blood donor are signing the organ donor register. it is important for somebody in my possession, who asked people, the mind is following year, often at difficult times when people are experiencing health problems, that i am also prepared to have my body imaged and take part in a study which is really a privilege to be part of. all for the greater good, fergus walsh, a medical editor, thank you very much, such a fascinating insight. now it is time for a look at the weather. the full uk forecast in a minute. we will take a quick look at what is going on in italy where it looks like we'll

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in 2010, when i signed up to biobank, i did a battery of health tests.volunteer to undergo a second round of brain and body scans, along with bone density measurements. it will reveal even more detail of how we age. it enables researchers for the first time to be able to look at changes in our organs as we get older and develop disease — that will help to develop biomarkers of disease perhaps many years before a clinical diagnosis of symptoms, therefore helping to come up with ways to prevent disease happening in the first place or come up with new treatments. the volunteers, like mary and marian, have also done reams of cognitive tests. they don't get the results of these or the scans unless a potentially serious health problem is found. so what's in it for them? well, it's going to help the future generations and it's going to help the health service, we hope. maybe there's a measure of altruism in there, and it's a bit like being a blood donor. you do it for your fellow man. big breath in... time will eventually catch up with all the volunteers. nearl

uk biobank is the gold standard internationally for this type of study.eir consent. so it gives an extraordinarily deep understanding of the causes of disease, which then can lead to better prevention and also treatments. big breath in. with every year that passes and volunteers like me get older, uk biobank will yield ever more information on how to combat the diseases of ageing. fergus walsh, bbc news. when it comes to space exploration — we're living in interesting time5. in the past, the united states competed with the soviet union to explore the heavens. these days, its private businesses who are leading the way. the newest kid on the block is a small british company with big ambition5 — as tim allman explains. anything jeff bezos can do... we have liftoff. ..elon mu5k can do just as well. but space forge mission control cardiff have ideas of their own. it's a problem nobody�*s tried to solve before in terms of catching a satellite as it's falling. and so new problems require new thinking. but it's always good to go back to the innovations of the pas

in 2010, when i signed up to biobank, i did a battery of health tests.e repeated many of them. now i'm the first volunteer to undergo a second round of brain and body scans, along with bone density measurements. it will reveal even more detail of how we age. it enables researchers for the first time to be able to look at changes in our organs as we get older and develop disease that will help to develop biomarkers of disease perhaps many years before a clinical diagnosis of symptoms. therefore, helping to come up with ways to prevent disease happening in the first place or come up with new treatments. the volunteers like mary and marian have also done reams of cognitive tests. they don't get the results of these or the scans unless a potentially serious health problem is found. so what's in it for them? well, it's going to help the future generations and it's going to help the health service, we hope. maybe there's a measure of altruism in there, and it's a bit like being a blood donor. you do it for your fellow man. time will eventually catch up with al

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it is largely an unsung british success story, uk biobank — unsung british success story, uk biobank.er time? how will medical knowledge be different about individuals over that time? potentially, yes. the typically around all the genetic data we have in the resource. it is quite possible he will go to a gp for a health check and have a blood sample taken. they will measure your genetic variation and from that they can say what is your genetic risk of developing, say, heart disease. if it is relatively high at want to put you on statins or you will have to change your lifestyle to prevent that happening. haifa change your lifestyle to prevent that happening-— change your lifestyle to prevent that happening. change your lifestyle to prevent that ha eninu. ., . ., ., ., that happening. how much more data do ou that happening. how much more data do you need — that happening. how much more data do you need to _ that happening. how much more data do you need to gather? _ that happening. how much more data do you need to gather? more - that happening. how much more data do you need to gathe

and the "biobank" — the world's largest body scanning project — trying to better understand how humans