OncoHost Collaborates with Lung Biobank Heidelberg to Discover Lung Cancer Biomarkers
OncoHost, a global leader in next-generation precision oncology for improved personalized cancer therapy, recently announced a research collaboration with Lung Biobank Heidelberg, a member of BioMaterialBank Heidelberg (BMBH) and the German Center for Lung Research (DZL). The collaboration involves the systematic...
How Bias can Creep into Biobanks that Drive Precision Health and Clinical AI
In the race to harness medical data for artificial intelligence tools and personalized health care, a new study shows how easily unintentional design bias can affect those efforts. It also points to specific ways to increase the chances that patients...
Importance of Cooperation Between Academic Biobanks and Biomedical Industry for Accelerating Personalized Medicine
Biological material and comprehensive data are referred as the fundamental resource for the progress in life science research, development of novel biotechnology methods along with investigations focused on new therapies. In this field, biobanks play a crucial role through...
Generate Life Sciences Establishes Newborn Stem Cell Manufacturing Facility to Support Personalized Therapeutics Development
Generate Life Sciences (Generate) today announced the establishment of its Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility in La Jolla, California which will enable end-to-end manufacturing for newborn stem cell biologics. This facility will represent a big step in the evolution of Generate and...
Evotec to Partner with GCKD Study to Facilitate Molecular Analysis of Patient Samples
Evotec SE and the University Hospital Erlangen just announced a partnership regarding molecular analyses of biospecimens from the German Chronic Kidney Disease ("GCKD") cohort study. Under the agreement, the research team will make use of Evotec's proprietary EVOpanOmics and EVOpanHunter platforms to...
The Need for Patient-Pushed, Real-World Data on Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurodegenerative diseases, is a collective term for a group of disorders characterized by the progressive neurodegeneration of brain cells, leading to dysfunction(s) and abnormal structure(s) in the central and/or peripheral nervous systems. One of the main causes of neurodegeneration...
Large Study on Mental Health Genetics Launched by Estonian Biobank
Nearly every second individual is affected by a mental health problem in their lifetime, but the exact mechanisms causing these problems remain unclear. To bring more clarity to the field of mental health, the Estonian Biobank at the University...
New Collaboration to Discover and Develop Precision Medicines for Chronic Kidney Diseases
Collaboration will Leverage Access to the NURTuRE Patient Biobank and Evotec’s PanHunter Multi-Omics Platform to Characterize Molecular Drivers, Identify and Validate Novel Targets and Drive Patient Stratification Strategies in Kidney Disease Collaboration Will Focus on Polycystic Kidney Disease...
Prediction for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Could be Improved with Multi-Population Risk Scores
Using genetic data from nearly 30,000 people, Mount Sinai researchers have built risk scores from a combination of datasets representing distinct ancestral populations that improve prediction of risk for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis....
How Biobanks Can Support Personalized Medicine
Biobanks should be an integral part of a comprehensive research platform, not exclusively viewed as a service provider or freezer farm managed with excel sheets. For biobanks to be be viewed as a contributing partner and one that can...
