Temperature Matters: The Role of Biobank Management Systems in Maintaining Sample Integrity in the...
Biobanking has rapidly evolved over the years, and its role has become increasingly crucial in fields such as rare disease research, personalized medicine, and...
The Price Illusion: Why Biorepositories Can’t Afford Low-Cost Cold Storage
Ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers form the backbone of biorepositories, safeguarding high-value, irreplaceable biological samples that underpin critical research. The reliability of these systems can...
Room Temperature Biobanking: Can you Imagine Preserving Your Samples with Maximum Quality Without Freezing?
Advances in molecular techniques have increased the demand for effective methods to preserve biological material while ensuring the stability of nucleic acids, proteins, and...
What Your Biospecimen Procurement Partner Isn’t Telling You
Biospecimens are the foundation of every discovery in diagnostics, research, and drug development. They fuel the search for new therapies and assays, power clinical...
Democratizing Biobanking: Making Cutting-Edge Research Accessible to Emerging Countries
Introduction
Biobanks have become essential engines of discovery, fueling breakthroughs in personalized medicine, drug development, and population health. They serve as critical repositories of biological...
Biobanking for Precision Medicine Programs
Across laboratories worldwide, precision medicine is reshaping how disease is studied and treated. Rather than relying only on symptoms, researchers use biology, down to...
Automation for High-Throughput Biobank Processing Workflows
Biobanks support clinical trials, longitudinal studies, translational research programs, and pharmaceutical research by managing large collections of biological samples. As throughput and regulatory requirements...
Freeze–thaw Cycles: the Hidden Structural Impact on Cryo Tubes
Cryogenic storage is often associated with maintaining extremely low temperatures.
However, not all stress in biobanking comes from temperature alone.
Repeated freeze–thaw cycles — even when...
How Biobanks Support Cancer Research Progress
Biobanks support cancer research and personalized oncology by collecting and preserving high-quality biological samples, including tumor tissue samples, blood plasma, and DNA extracts.
When paired with...
Best Practices for Biospecimen Collection and Long-Term Preservation
Biospecimen collection and preservation directly influence specimen integrity and the reliability of downstream analytical results. Decisions made during collection, pre-analytical handling, and storage affect reproducibility...



















