Brain cancer is a devastating disease that takes the life of more children and adults under 40 than any other cancer. These grant funds will support the development of Australia’s …
South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) research can now utilize a wider variety of biospecimens, such as blood, body tissue or faecal matter, thanks to the SMHS Biobank – a newly-developed, …
Penn State College of Medicine researchers are collaborating to collect, store and distribute biological specimens to advance neuroscience research. Founded in 2016, the Penn State Neuroscience Biorepository has collected more …
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A major impediment to scientific progress in Antarctica is access. Its extreme weather, remoteness, and inaccessibility to some regions make the logistics of conducting Antarctic research extraordinarily challenging and expensive. …
The Fox Chase Cancer Center Biosample Repository Facility was recently awarded accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) based on results of a recent on-site inspection. A biorepository is …
South Africa has launched a central system to coordinate up to a million biological samples collected in the country over the past 200 years and scattered across its universities, research …
Researchers have analyzed image and genomic data from the UK Biobank to find insights into rare diseases of the human eye. These include retinal dystrophies – a group of inherited …
Qatar has stepped up efforts for better medical research to treat specific diseases as well as to understand the human body, as authorities announced the launch of the Tissue Biobank …
The Health Ministry is building collaboration with private pharmaceutical companies to support the establishment of a biobank ecosystem in Indonesia. The ecosystem will enable the collection of different biological samples …