OpenSpecimen, the globally adopted Biobanking LIMS, announced the successful completion of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 1 audit. The audit conducted by Johanson LLP affirms that OpenSpecimen’s information security practices, …
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The cells, tissues and organs critical to modern medicine and scientific research alike are in short supply, and the processes used to bank or preserve them are tricky and expensive. …
Whether they were hospitalized at Michigan Medicine, U-M’s academic medical centre, or volunteered to have blood drawn or their nose swabbed by a U-M team after they recovered at home, …
A biorepository of Micronesian marine specimens at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory is welcoming its largest addition yet—a private collection of around 30,000 coral specimens from Richard Randall, a …
Without samples from patients infected with Covid-19, it would have been unachievable to make the genome of SARS-CoV-2 virus genome accessible to the entire scientific community and develop effective vaccines …
The National Human Genome Research Institute has renewed its collaborative agreement with the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. For another five years, Coriell will continue to manage the NHGRI Sample …
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City believe their leading-edge repository of tissue samples can generate more answers for clinicians who treat children with inflammatory bowel disease. In …
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium (CFLTC) Biorepository and Registry. The CFLTC Biorepository and Patient Registry, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, …
Brain cancer recently passed leukaemia as the deadliest cancer for children. Yet there hasn’t been much progress over the years when it comes to understanding causes and finding treatments. Some …