The Need for Patient-Pushed, Real-World Data on Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurodegenerative diseases, is a collective term for a group of disorders characterized by the progressive neurodegeneration of brain cells, leading to dysfunction(s) and abnormal structure(s) in the central and/or peripheral nervous systems. One of the main causes of neurodegeneration...
Digitization: Enabling Biobanks Navigate Through Regulatory Challenges
Over the past two decades, there has been an increased need for collecting, curating, storing, and distributing biological specimens to gain specific information into the genetic makeup of diseases . This has sparked the demand for biobanking. Genetic and biomedical...
The Domino Effect: How Technology Works With Biobanks To Improve Patient Care
The process of biobanking is improving at an extremely rapid rate. More biological samples are being collected, allowing biobanks around the world to generate larger data sets of a higher quality. In turn, the global biobanking market is quickly...
New Trends in Biobanking Based on Main International Events in 2019
What were the most attractive biobanking ideas in 2019? ISBER (International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories) and ESBB (European, Middle Easter and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking) are the two biggest world leaders in the biobanking area. Every...
Would Biobanking be Efficacious to Revolutionize the Medical World?
We live in a world that is being transformed by the scientific revolution. Traditionally, biobank was a term used to describe a biorepository for biological tissues. Today, biobanks are used in a much broader context and are used to...
Artificial Intelligence: The New Age of Biobanking and Medical Research
Artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly but surely transforming the practice of medicine. Advancements in digital data collection, computing infrastructure, and machine learning have allowed artificial intelligence applications to spread into previously untapped domains. Today, the revolution in biobanks, biorepositories,...
Defining biobanks: To be or not to be…… what was the question?
“Is a biobank a facility or research project?” This was a question asked in an international biobanking community forum back in April 2021. Answers were equivocal with many respondents taking an each way bet saying ‘both’. But this is...
The Anatomy of a Refrigeration Failure: What Happens at 2:00 a.m. When Mission Critical...
Article contributed by Chris Wilkes, chief commercial officer at KLATU Networks, Inc. Ultralow temperature (ULT) freezers often contain high-value biopharmaceuticals and/or irreplaceable research. When you leave at the end of the day or for the weekend, you need confidence that...
Automated Reporting for Biobank Monitoring
Sponsored content brought to you by With the importance of consistent quality in biobanking storage, continuously improving biobank laboratory and facility operations is not just a good idea, it is a necessity. Biobanks, Tissue Banks, Blood Banks, and Cryobank storage facilities...
How Biobanks Can Support Personalized Medicine
Biobanks should be an integral part of a comprehensive research platform, not exclusively viewed as a service provider or freezer farm managed with excel sheets. For biobanks to be be viewed as a contributing partner and one that can...
