On a Tuesday in mid-April, the UK Biobank — one of the largest and most comprehensive health-tracking studies in the world — received a troubling e-mail from an anonymous researcher. The sender had discovered what appeared to be sensitive information from hundreds of thousands of the study’s participants for sale on Xianyu, an e-commerce website
Ethical approval and sample collection All necessary ethical approvals to conduct this work and to ensure that the derived organoids could be used for academic and commercial purposes were obtained from each participating clinical site for the collection of patient samples as well as for the Wellcome Sanger Institute for organoid derivation (IRAS ID:203519; REC
