The UK biobank

Image

Biobank, UK

Format

jpg

License

Creative Commons Licence

Contributors

Contributed date

June 17, 2019 - 12:30pm

Critical Commentary

This is the UK Biobank, one of the largest biobanks in the world. It keeps around 5000 samples obtained from British citizens. This picture shows a robot storing the samples. The picture shows nothing that can be associated with blood and flesh.

Cite as

MIT Technology Review, "The UK biobank", contributed by Maria Amelia Rodriguez, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 26 August 2019, accessed 17 December 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/uk-biobank