Mayo Clinic’s Living Breast Biobank

Mayo Clinic’s Living Breast Biobank has proved invaluable in a recent breakthrough study that demonstrates a novel mechanism through which female carriers of the BRCA1 gene may be at increased risk for …

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Cryopreservation of Stem Cell-Laden Hydrogels

Tissue engineering involves the transplantation of stem cell-laden hydrogels as synthetic constructs to replace damaged tissues. However, their time-consuming fabrication procedures are hurdles to widespread application in clinics. Fortunately, similar …

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NIH Launched INCLUDE Data Hub for Down Syndrome Research

The INCLUDE (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE) Project Data Coordinating Center (DCC) recently launched the INCLUDE Data Hub, a free-to-use, one-of-a-kind online tool for sharing, collecting and analyzing data specifically about …

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Striking Biological Gold

Since the very beginning of the pandemic, the Harvard Medical School-led Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, or MassCPR, has been connecting scientists at different institutions with biospecimens for SARS-CoV-2 research. Now, MassCPR is …

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OpenSpecimen is now SOC2 Type 2 Certified

“Achieving Type II certification is a big milestone for us. It affirms our commitment to the security, availability, and processing integrity of the OpenSpecimen platform. We are extremely thankful to …

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What happens in a blood cancer biobank?

Blood cancers such as acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), multiple myeloma (MM), and chronic lymphoid leukaemia (CLL) are very rare and complex diseases. They vary greatly between patients and are very different at the genetic, …

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