Biobanking Science: Storing Cells at Room Temperature
Cryopreservation is the gold standard method to store biospecimens in biobanking organizations. Cryopreservation usually involves flash freezing samples and storing them at ultra-low temperatures...
The Pharma Proteomics Project: UK Biobank Collaborating with Biopharma Consortium to Study Plasma Proteome
UK Biobank, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive biomedical databases and research resources, announced that a consortium of ten biopharmaceutical companies. According...
Biobanking Science: Brainstorm Consortium Finds Genetic Link for Brain Diseases
One of the major benefits of biobanking is the ability to safely collect and store large numbers of biological samples. This allows researchers to...
Biobanking Science: Cancer Biobanks
Cancer is major cause of death worldwide and mortality levels remain high despite the development of new therapeutics and other cancer treatments. Cancer biobanks...
Biobanking Science: New Non-Toxic Cryoprotectant Solutions
Cell therapy is a rapidly growing field that uses live cells to treat patients. This presents unique biobanking challenges because, unlike traditional pharmaceutical products,...
Biobanking Science: Lessons from African Biobanks
With the recent advances in genomic sequencing, proteomics and precision medicine, biobanks are becoming more prevalent around the world. So are large-scale population studies...
Biobanking Science: Maximizing Red Blood Cell Life in Biobanks
Blood transfusions are a common part of modern medicine and have been used to save human patients for 200 years. Biobanks play an integral...
Biobanking Science: Using FTA Cards to Preserve Nucleic Acids
Biobanking organizations may use a range of different methods to preserve biological samples including cryopreservation, fixation and paraffin-embedding and FTA cards.
Biobanking Samples by Cryopreservation
Cryopreservation...
Biobanking Science: Mining Paraffin-Embedded Samples for DNA, RNA and Protein
Biobanks may choose to store biological samples as formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) blocks. FFPE preservation is the standard method of collecting and storing surgical pathology...
The Taiwan Biobank Provides Insights into the Health and History of Han Chinese Subjects
Over the last two decades, several large, population-based biobanks have been set up to collect blood and other biospecimens along with a standard set...
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