Van Andel Institute’s Biorepository is the recipient of a five-year, $7.9 million contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to continue serving as …
The Universities of York and Newcastle have joined forces with two leading cancer charities to create a new biobank which will provide vital resources for researchers working to prevent, diagnose …
The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) announces the release of the updated ISBER Biobank Assessment Tool (BAT), available at https://www.isber.org/page/BAT. Previously known as the ISBER Self-Assessment Tool, …
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 …