Thyroid Cancer Registry at University of Nebraska
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 …
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ACSR’s SOP for Emergency Shutdown and Reopening of Biobanks
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) …
Does biobanking hold the key to achieving universal health?
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 …
Biobanking: Strengthening Uganda’s Rapid Response to COVID-19 and Other Epidemics
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 …
Biobanks, Biotechs and the Need to Recognize a Crisis
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 …
Uganda Launches National Research Biobanking Guidelines
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 …
A National Irish Biobank for COVID-19 Research
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 …
Biobanking as a Newsletter – September 2021
Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and useful. Please do let us know …
First Brain Biobank to Come up at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar will soon have a brain bio-bank to facilitate neurobiology research. The one of its kind facility in eastern India will be …
Queensland University of Technology to Establish DNA Biobank to Identify Missing Australian Soldiers
Families of targeted missing Australian service members will be invited to help establish a DNA Biobank to aid in identifying recovered remains, funded by a new $2.2 million Department of …