Biobanking refers to the practice of collecting human and animal biological samples, including blood, urine, bone marrow, saliva, spinal fluid, and tissue, for research purposes to further our understanding of …
A team from the Hubrecht Institute in collaboration with Erasmus MC University, both the Netherlands, have developed an organoid biobank of mutant intestinal organoids to investigate the genes responsible for …
The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) today announced the launch of its global, data-rich repository of anonymized HRCT scans and clinical information regarding interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). This first-of-its-kind database is …
Biobanks play a vital role in research by collaborating with pharmaceutical industries and clinical research organizations. Biobanks provide various services required for clinical research (e.g., biospecimen processing and analysis) and …
The cells, tissues and organs critical to modern medicine and scientific research alike are in short supply, and the processes used to bank or preserve them are tricky and expensive. …
Whether they were hospitalized at Michigan Medicine, U-M’s academic medical centre, or volunteered to have blood drawn or their nose swabbed by a U-M team after they recovered at home, …
Pre-clinical research is a particular challenge, and one place to look for new efficiencies is in the procurement of a critical resource—human biospecimens—including biofluids (e.g., blood), viable cells (e.g., immune …
A biorepository of Micronesian marine specimens at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory is welcoming its largest addition yet—a private collection of around 30,000 coral specimens from Richard Randall, a …
Without samples from patients infected with Covid-19, it would have been unachievable to make the genome of SARS-CoV-2 virus genome accessible to the entire scientific community and develop effective vaccines …
The National Human Genome Research Institute has renewed its collaborative agreement with the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. For another five years, Coriell will continue to manage the NHGRI Sample …