Tag: Quality Assurance
UMMC Biobank Accredited by ANAB Under ISO 20387 Program for Biobanking
The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) Biobank has been authorized by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to conduct various biobanking tasks, such as collecting, labeling, processing, preserving, storing, distributing, and supervising biological samples with corresponding clinical information for...
SCL Biobank Acquired ISO 20387:2018 Accreditation from A2LA, the First Biobank in the Asia-Pacific...
The Seoul Clinical Laboratories (SCL) Biobank in Korea acquired the ISO 20387:2018 accreditation for the first time in the Asia-Pacific region from the A2LA (American Association for Laboratory Accreditation), the most authoritative certification body in the field of biobanking.
The...
Biobank Väst Becomes the First Nordic Biobank within BBMRI-ERIC Network to Achieve ISO Quality...
“As the first biobank in Sweden and the Nordics, we have taken a step closer to accreditation towards the international standard ISO 20387:2018. Quality Label is proof that we meet the requirements of the standard and thus obey the...
German Biobank Alliance Accepts Six New Biobanks to It’s Network
In five years, the German Biobank Alliance (GBA) has made more than 1.5 million human biospecimens such as blood or tissue available for research projects, resulting in approximately 2,600 scientific publications. Now the biobank alliance welcomes another six biobanks...
Machine Learning For High-Throughput Quality Control Of Cardiac Imaging
From 2014 onwards, 100,000 volunteers from the UK biobank
(UKBB) were enrolled for multi-modal imaging, including magnetic resonance (MRI)
of the brain, the heart and the full body. More than 20,000 participants have
been MRI scanned for the heart so far. The...
Best Practice In Validating New Automated Sample Storage Systems At UZ KU Leuven Biobank
Biobanking is the cornerstone of the Precision Medicine Initiative
guided by the director of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis S.
Collins. Historically the process of getting samples from patients/ volunteers
to storage (biobanking) has been the least standardized of all...
Agilent 4150 TapeStation System For Quality Control At Smaller Biobanks Released
Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced the shipping of a
new instrument that offers laboratories a more affordable, low-throughput
option for analyzing the quality of RNA and DNA samples. Founded in 1999, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Agilent
Technologies Inc. is a global leader...
Five-Compartment Cord Blood Freezing Bags From Americord Come With $110,000 Quality Guarantee
Americord Registry has announced that it will begin offering five-compartment freezing bags for all new customers storing cord blood as well as the highest quality guarantee in the industry. While industry-standard freezing bags typically contain two compartments, one holding...
Bruker B.I.BioBankTool™ For Biobank Standardization And Quality Control
Bruker Corporation is a manufacturer of analytical and medical instruments, for use in applied and pharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, and in industrial applications, as well as in cell biology, preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics and proteomics research and...
The CM-Path Biobanking Sample Quality Improvement Tool
The National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) was established in 2001 with a mission to bring together all the key players in cancer research in the UK to identify where research was most needed and where it was most likely...
