This month in 1792, the US Postal Service was created! Postage cost between 6 and 25 cents, depending on the distance your parcel needed to travel! The Postal Service Act, signed by George Washington on February 20th, transformed the Constitutional Post, a fledgling mail delivery service run by Benjamin Franklin, into an official department of the federal government until 1971, when it became an independent institution.
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of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe.
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Fresh of the Press
- Lagos biobank to tackle Lassa fever, Coronavirus
- California Biobank stores DNA of every California infant
- A Living Biobank Of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Organoids
- Individualized care for psychiatric disorders – Mayo Clinic Biobank
- Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi filter paper for cryopreservation
- edu-BRoTHER: a student exchange program providing biobanking skills
- NIH awards UB $21.7 million to continue Buffalo’s research and health-care
- New Tick Cell Biobank to support research on tick-borne diseases in Africa
Biobank Job Alerts
- Laboratory Technologist – NewYork, USA
- Quality Manager– Victorian Cancer Biobank, Australia
- Project Officer – Biobank – MCRI, Melbourne, Australia
- Healthcare Assistant – Berkshire, UK Biobank
- Lupus Biobank Operations Manager – Lupus Research Alliance, New York
- Biobank Technician – UCLA Health – USA
Upcoming Events
ISBER 2020 Annual Meeting: Anaheim, USA (14-18 April 2020)
OpenSpecimen News
- Is OpenSpecimen CFR Part-11 compliant?
- CAP accreditation by University of California (Davis)
- Auckland Region Tissue Bank adopts OpenSpecimen
- How to use OpenSpecimen to manage longitudinal studies?