The rise of biobanks worldwide promised lots of cheap and plentiful human DNA for scientists to study. In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 ricocheted around the world, geneticists everywhere …
Each year in the U.S., more than 356,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati hope to learn more about the causes of cardiac arrest through the …
Researchers analyzing genomic data from the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank have found a highly diverse patient population within the repository, and they plan to leverage the data to support …
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has opened a state-of-the-art automated biobanking system that can store as many as 10 million biospecimens, including blood and body fluids, tissue, and genetic and protein …
The Egyptian Armed Forces announced the establishment of the country’s first-ever automated biobank at the Armed Forces Centre for Research and Regenerative Medicine (ECRRM), also the first of its kind …
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is an enrollment site of the All of Us Research Program, a National Institutes of Health initiative to collect health information from 1 million …
Resources from biobanks and biorepositories, such as human samples, are of increasing interest to specialists in various fields. However, whilst biobanks provide a crucial service, their efficient and effective management …
Biorepositories and biodiversity information systems in Bhutan were instituted since 1990s, and have contributed towards biodiversity conservation and sustainable utilization efforts in the country, including the recent citizen-science initiatives. The …
Dr. Helen Williams, Scientific Officer in Westmead Hospital in has received a research grant to establish a collection of blood samples from 500 people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). Familial hypercholesterolaemia …
At the Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL), a site of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s National Reference Laboratory in Lagos, the NCDC has opened a sizable biorepository facility. The …