The UK government plans to transform the London Olympics drug-testing laboratory in Harlow into a national bioanalytics centre, Prime Minister David Cameron announced on 1 August. The MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre will use equipment purchased for anti-doping tests to probe biological samples for biochemicals such as proteins and metabolites, with the aim of analysing 100,000 samples per year from massive epidemiology projects. The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) are each putting £5 million (US$8 million) into the Droiect.
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