AgileBio Launces a LIMS Package Addressed to COVID-19 Labs
Paris - March 27, 2020. Solidarity is the need of the pressing COVID-19 situation today. LabCollector LIMS solution is ready to join hands with the testing labs to increase the rapidity and efficiency of COVID-19 tests and its management...
Study: Diet And Mortality In The UK Biobank
Dietary recommendations to the general public can be
unclear. They often don’t take into account nutrient and or drug interactions. For
example, the long-held view that saturated fat should be reduced has been
challenged by recent studies suggesting that saturated fat intake...
CloudLIMS Offers Free LIMS Globally to SARS-CoV-2 & COVID-19 Research & Testing Laboratories, and...
Wilmington, Delaware – March 21, 2020. CloudLIMS recognizes the threat to global health the COVID-19 pandemic brings. To do our part, we are making our flagship in the cloud LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System), CloudLIMS Enterprise, free of charge...
Coronary Artery Disease Genetic Risk Score: Is It Clinically Useful In Over 45s?
Genomic risk prediction based on polygenic risk scores generated
from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to summarize the contribution of
anywhere between hundreds to millions of genetic variants to determine the risk
of developing multifactorial diseases such as coronary artery disease (CAD). This
could...
ISBER Best Practices Recommendations for Biobanks and Biorepositories
Does Your Biorepository Follow ISBER Best Practices Recommendations?
Biorepositories provide essential support to biomedical researchers by collecting, processing, storing and distributing millions of biospecimens every year. Biorepository staff must navigate complex international regulatory rules governing the use of biospecimens and...
Webinar: Managing Multi-site Specimen Collection Studies with OpenSpecimen by FIND (Geneva)
Date/Time: Thursday, March 26 | 11 AM EST Registration link: https://www.openspecimen.org/webinar-multi-site-specimen-collection-find-diagnostics/ Feel free to register even if you are busy at this time or in a different time zone, we will share a recording of the webinar. Agenda: OpenSpecimen Introduction (10 mins,...
White Paper – Using a LIMS to Improve Laboratory Efficiency and Profitability
Autoscribe Informatics has published a new white paper entitled: "Using a LIMS to Improve Laboratory Efficiency and Profitability". This comprehensive document can be downloaded at: https://www.autoscribeinformatics.com/resources/using-a-lims-to-improve-laboratory-efficiency-and-profitability. It highlights the extensive capabilities that a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) can provide...
How the University of California Davis Pathology Biorepository Achieved CAP Accreditation with OpenSpecimen
Sponsored content brought to you by Research in precision medicine requires a continuous supply of high-quality biospecimens. But as the saying goes - “Garbage in garbage out”, meaningful conclusions from the studies can only be drawn when the researchers are...
A Systems Approach To Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis
Found in the brain and spinal cord, the cerebrospinal fluid
(CSF) is a clear, colorless fluid with a total volume of about 125ml per person,
produced by specialized neuroglia called ependymal cells, that acts as a buffer
and cushioning solution. The brain...
T-GEN – A GWAS Method Incorporating Epigenetics
Junk DNA, black-box DNA, repeat elements, transposons, endogenous
retroviruses, long non-coding RNAs are just some of the names for and elements of
non-protein coding DNA that make up 99% of the human genome. Aside from
structural elements such as telomeres, many “Junk...
