NEW YORK: Scientists are to scan the brains and organs of 100,000 people in a bid to shed light on a range of diseases from dementia to heart disease and cancer.
The study has the potential to unlock information on risk factors for diseases, detect the earliest signs of illnesses and could help develop new kinds of treatments, experts said.
Researchers said it could lead to ‘new breakthroughs faster’ to help sufferers of such diseases.
It is even hoped the imaging research study – which is the world’s largest – could lead to findings on a par with the investigation that first linked smoking to lung cancer.
Until now, past studies have only used hundreds of people, so creating the world’s largest database of scans, using MRI and other methods, will boost the ‘scope and quality’ of research, experts said…