Over the past 15 years, 100,000 volunteers in the UK have taken part in the UK Biobank project. This is the world's largest full-body imaging project with the aim of understanding the unsolved mysteries inside the human body. Photo: ukbiobank.ac.uk.

As part of the project, volunteers were imaged with their brains, hearts and other vital organs as well as their bones and joints. Photo: ukbiobank.ac.uk.

Experts hope that this project will provide a large amount of information to help scientists and doctors who are researching diseases such as dementia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, depression, vision disorders... Photo: ukbiobank.ac.uk.

The DNA data collected from volunteers will be compared and contrasted with each other, aiming to improve the diagnosis and treatment of many different diseases. Photo: ukbiobank.ac.uk.

By analyzing the DNA from the collected data, experts hope to identify 850,000 biomarkers associated with disease. Photo: ukbiobank.ac.uk.

“We are trying to understand why one person gets this disease and another doesn’t,” said Professor Rory Collins, CEO of the UK Biobank project. Photo: ukbiobank.ac.uk.

Professor Sir Rory Collins, principal investigator and CEO of UK Biobank, said of the world’s largest whole-body imaging project: “The scale of this imaging project is unprecedented – 10 times larger than any previous project – enabling scientists to see patterns of disease that would otherwise be invisible.” Photo: UK Biobank / Dave Guttridge.

The results from the UK Biobank project promise to advance modern medicine and help experts discover new ways to prevent, treat and cure diseases. Photo: Pixabay.

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