The UK Biobank at 20

The UK Biobank houses an extensive collection of biological samples and health information from 500,000 volunteers, providing clues to the genetic and environmental drivers of disease. Naomi Allen, the project's chief scientist and an epidemiologist at Oxford University, discusses the exploding body of findings from this 20-year-old biomedical resource and the prospects for the expansion of this biopharmaceutical treasure trove.