Tag: Biospecimen
Human Organ Safe Storage a Step Closer with New Cryopreservation Discovery
The team’s discovery of new cryoprotective agents opens the door to many more being developed that could one day help to eliminate the need for organ transplant waiting lists. Their results are published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Cryopreservation is...
iSpecimen Appoints Evan Cox as Vice President of Product Management
iSpecimen Inc. (Nasdaq: ISPC) ("iSpecimen" or the "Company"), an online global marketplace that connects scientists in need of biospecimens for medical research with a network of healthcare specimen provders, recently announced that the Company has appointed Evan Cox as Vice...
Reliable Ultra-Low Freezers for the Storage of Cancer Biomarkers
The use of tumour markers to diagnose, assess prognosis, and select a suitable cancer treatment has become possible due to the development of inexpensive and user-friendly molecular analysis tools such as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Maintaining the integrity...
Dubai to Open UAE’s First Robotic Biobank in 2023 to Boost Medical Research and...
Al Jalila Foundation, a member of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, announced that it will establish the UAE’s first robotic biobank, in partnership with the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) and...
Ultra-Low Temperature Storage of Tissues and Blood Specimens
Every year, millions of biospecimens, including human tissues and blood, are preserved around the world for disease diagnosis and research. Biological samples can be maintained for extended periods of time for future use or to allow transportation to different...
Discovery Life Sciences Launches Biospecimen E-commerce Platform – Discovery BIOstore™
Discovery Life Sciences™ (Discovery), the Biospecimen and Biomarker Specialists™, announced today the launch of the Discovery BIOstore™. This new, easy-to-navigate online experience will provide real-time access to Discovery's inventory of millions of human biospecimens to allow scientists to build...
Interview with Jill Mullan, Chief Operating Officer at iSpecimen
Every medical breakthrough starts with the study of afflicted patients, often through their blood, tumor tissue, or other biological material. Thus, it’s critical for the advancement of life science research that scientists can easily procure the human biospecimens they...
Safety for Biobanks: Strategies for Safe COVID-19 Specimens Handling
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to almost every country around the world. In less than 4 months, this new disease has affected more than 1,800,000 people and caused almost 120,000 deaths. There are no effective treatments or vaccines for...
Low Cost T-Cell Receptor Repertoire Analysis By FR3AK-Seq
The T-cell receptor (TCR) is an essential component of the adaptive immune response elicited by vaccines, infectious agents and cancer. As such it is the source of a new class of immunotherapies in the drug development pipeline. An individual’s...
iSpecimen Marketplace® Expands Access To Hematopoietic Stem And Immune Cells
iSpecimen, devoted to supporting life science researchers
who urgently pursue breakthroughs, has partnered with new providers of diseased
and healthy hematologic tissue to offer one of the industry’s largest, most
integrated networks of donors and collection sites available while addressing
proliferating demand for...
