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Governments and research organizations around the world are conducting large long-term precision medicine projects to understand how genetic and lifestyle factors cause disease. Longitudinal...

As researchers, we are familiar with why we have the need for biobanking regulations due to the story of Henrietta Lacks. HeLa cells survived...

Antibiotic resistance is a major health issue. More than 700,000 people around the world die from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections every year—23,000 of those are...

One of the major benefits of biobanking is the ability to safely collect and store large numbers of biological samples. This allows researchers to...

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...

Scientists around the world are searching for reliable biomarkers to diagnose diseases and track disease progression and patients’ responses to treatment. There has been...

Any entity that stores biological samples can be called a Biobank. However, the term ‘Biobank’ is most commonly used for entities that store biological...

Biobanking is an Integral Part of Cell Therapy Cell therapy is a rapidly growing medical field with the potential to treat a wide range of...

California Cryobank Stem Cell Services LLC ("FamilyCord"), has recently acquired Cord Blood America Inc. ("CBAI"), joining two of the industry's most respected stem cell...

Biobanking storage conditions can affect long-term sample quality and integrity1. A number of biomarkers are particularly sensitive to storage temperature and can degrade even...