Quality and Accreditation Institute issued a biobank accreditation certificate to the National Liver Disease Biobank (NLDB) of the Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences. This became the first biobank accreditation certificate …
Cleveland Clinic and Brooks Automation have opened a biorepository that will increase the storage capacity for biologic samples at Cleveland Clinic while enhancing researchers’ study of human tissue samples to …
Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most common endocrine-related malignancy. It is projected that by 2030, it will become the fourth leading cancer diagnosis. Several known risk factors for TC include …
Most biobanks operating under Best Practices from either the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) …
Increasing the availability of high-quality biological samples through biobanks has the potential to advance global health research and speed up progress towards Sustainable Development Goals such as achieving universal health coverage, a UN science …
SARS-CoV-2 is a fatal disease of global public health concern. Measures to reduce its spread critically depend on a timely and accurate diagnosis of virus-infected individuals. During epidemics and pandemics …
What does it take to get people to recognize that a crisis exists? Sometimes it is necessary to tell people again and again and again, to overcome the in-built human …
The Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovations Dr. Monica Musenero has launched the National Research Biobanking framework at Next Media Park in Kampala. The substructure which was unveiled on September …
The National Irish COVID-19 Biobank (NICB) is an essential new component of Ireland’s response to COVID-19, in which the Health Research Board (HRB) has been playing a vital role since …
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