Source-The Washington Post-
The nation’s leading medical research agency is officially inviting all Americans to contribute to a massive genetic library it says is more inclusive and accessible than any such database built so far.
National Institutes of Health officials announced yesterday that the government’s “All of Us” initiative is open for business, more than three years since they first started working on the ambitious project. Director Francis Collins is inviting people across the country — particularly members of minority communities — to share health records, answer surveys and provide blood and urine samples to be entered into tabase with the goal of eventually including 1 million participants.
Recruitment begins Sunday with community events in seven sites across the country, where people will be encouraged to sign up for the mammoth research project, my colleague Lenny Bernstein reports. “Its goal is to supplement and in some cases replace the need to repeatedly recruit human subjects for research by providing a huge database of health and lifestyle information for scientists to plumb,” Read more