Biobanking Science: Plastic Tubes Can Contaminate Biobanked Samples
Plastics Can Cause Experimental Errors in Biobanks
Biobanks and laboratories use an array of plastic consumables such as pipette tips, sample storage tubes and cell culture flasks. Plastic consumables are convenient, cost-effective and can be sterile, DNase and RNase free....
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, cells must be alive and functional to be effective therapeutics. Unless cell therapy cells are...
Biobanking Science: High-Speed Freezing Protects Tumor Cell Quality
Biobanks around the world store many different types of biological samples. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are commonly stored in biobanks as these cells can be used to diagnose cancer in patients and to monitor disease progression. CTCs break off...
