Driving linked to obesity

Biobanking Science: Driving Linked to Obesity

Eating unhealthy food, not exercising and being overweight or obese increases the risk of developing diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes (1-4). These diseases have become worldwide epidemics, killing millions of people each year. The Obesity Epidemic Obesity has tripled...

Autoscribe Informatics’ Matrix Gemini Biobanking Management System At The ABNA Conference

Autoscribe Informatics will be demonstrating the Matrix Gemini Biobanking Management System at the Australasian Biospecimen Network Association Conference; The Art of Biobanking, on the 18th and 19th of October in Melbourne. Jodie Poole, the Autoscribe Informatics team’s newly appointed Technical...

Biobanking Software: What Are We Going to Do With Our Legacy Data?

Sponsored content brought to you by One of the seemingly daunting tasks of moving your data from an older complex system, or collection of spreadsheets to a new LIMS is a step that should be considered seriously, but can be...

CRISPR Therapeutics And ViaCyte Collaborate To Create Universal Stem Cell Therapies For Diabetes

CRISPR Therapeutics and ViaCyte, Inc. have announced a collaboration focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of gene-edited allogeneic stem cell therapies for the treatment of diabetes. ViaCyte is a privately-held regenerative medicine company, founded in 1999, headquartered San Diego,...

Cytox Partners With The AIBL Biobank To Identify Alzheimer’s Risk

Cytox is a precision medicine company, based in the United Kingdom, with a focus on neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and commercializing polygenic risk scoring (PRS). The Cytox scientific and proprietary technology platform is being applied to...
chronic kidney disease patients may need transplant

Biobanking Science: Biobanks Tackle Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease is common. The prevalence of chronic kidney disease has rapidly increased over the past 20 years, and it now affects 13% of people around the world (1). Chronic kidney disease can be difficult to treat because...

3-Day-Course: How To Build A Biobank – Learning By Doing | Biobank Graz

28- 30 November 2018 | Biobank Graz Registration deadline: 12 October 2018 Registration and more information: https://biobank.medunigraz.at/education/ For information and questions about registration please contact: biobank@medunigraz.at   Teaching method:  65 % lecture and 35 % interactive Language:  English Cost:   480 Euro | includes scripts, coffee...

The U-Blood Platform Ecosystem By Haier Biomedical

Haier was founded on December 26, 1984, headquartered in China. Under the guidance of the Rendanheyi management philosophy and business philosophy of Zhang Ruimin, Haier has developed into an ecological enterprise led by the Internet of Things. In 2017,...
gene therapy product retroviral vector

Biobanking Science: Safe Gene Therapy

Gene therapy has the potential to cure any disease caused by genetic mutations. For gene therapy to work, normal copies of genetic DNA, replacement messenger RNA or gene-editing constructs must be delivered to affected cells. Nucleic acids are rapidly...

30 Minute Webinar: Biospecimen Quality for Precision Medicine Hosted By CloudLIMS

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | 10:00 AM PDT |1:00 PM EDT | 5:00 PM GMT Presented by Dr. Jim Vaught, Editor-in-Chief of Biopreservation and Biobanking (BIO), the official journal of ISBER. Who is it for? CloudLIMS encourages laboratory directors, managers and...