Biobanking Science: Disease Patterns in UK Biobank Data
The UK Biobank is one of the biggest biobanking projects in the world with samples and data from over 500,000 participants aged 40 to 69 years. UK Biobank participants allow doctors to take repeat physiological measurements such as blood...
$1.1M Awarded To Type 2 Diabetes And Heart Disease Research Using Biobank Data
The University of Arizona (UA) Health Sciences includes the UA Colleges of Medicine (Phoenix and Tucson), Nursing, Pharmacy and Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, with main campus locations in Tucson and the growing Phoenix Biomedical Campus...
American Type Culture Collection – Biorepository Services
ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) is a global biological materials resource and standards organization whose mission focusses on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development, and distribution of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines, and other materials. ATCC also develops high...
Biobanking Science: MicroRNAs As Biomarkers
Scientists around the world are searching for reliable biomarkers to diagnose diseases and track disease progression and patients’ responses to treatment. There has been a lot of excitement about the potential for circulating microRNAs to be biomarkers for a...
Hitachi Chemical Advanced Therapeutics Solutions Increases Stake In Counter-Flow Centrifugation
Caladrius Biosciences, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company with multiple technology platforms including cell therapies targeting select cardiovascular indications and autoimmune diseases.
Invetech Pty Ltd., is a full-service provider of product design, instrument development and contract manufacturing with a...
Bulgaria Joins With BBMRI-ERIC To Make New Treatments Possible
Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) is an organisation established under EU legislation operating under a “non-economic basis”. Its headquarters are in Graz, Austria, and it has a liaison office in Brussels. The...
Importance of LIMS for Biobanks
Any entity that stores biological samples can be called a Biobank. However, the term ‘Biobank’ is most commonly used for entities that store biological specimens on a large scaleto provide them as a service for internal or external entities...
Triple ISBER Honors For Brooks Life Sciences
Brooks Life Sciences is a division of Brooks Automation that has a most comprehensive portfolio of sample management solutions for the life sciences industry, enabling accelerated innovations by researchers worldwide to improve patient health. On offer are automated storage...
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 remains the gold standard for long-term biobanking because this method maintains the integrity and biological...
The National Biosample Centre (NBC) UK
The National Biosample Centre (NBC) is operated by the UK Biocentre as a not-for-profit organisation and was established by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in the UK. The National Biosample Centre makes extensive use of software and...
