Speed is Important in Biobanking but the Promises Must be Kept
Hofstadter's Law is the observation that a process will always take longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's Law is taken into account. In other...
Importance of Cooperation Between Academic Biobanks and Biomedical Industry for Accelerating Personalized Medicine
Biological material and comprehensive data are referred as the fundamental resource for the progress in life science research, development of novel biotechnology methods along...
Cold Chain Best Laboratory Practices for Biobanking
I always understood that a biobank is not an investigation laboratory practice but rather an investigative support service. For this reason, process control is...
Biobanking Knowledge and Practical Skills Delivered Through E-learning-based Master’s Program
Article contributed by Gabriele Hartl, Christine Mitchell, Tanja Macheiner, Brigitte Jaksa, Berthold Huppertz and Karine Sargsyan, at Medical University of Graz.
Background
With the development of modern...
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More than a year ago, something happened that most of us could hardly imagine. A virus took the whole world more or less firmly...
Biobanking Consent: Informing Human Subjects of the Possibilities
As researchers, we are familiar with why we have the need for biobanking regulations due to the story of Henrietta Lacks. HeLa cells survived...
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