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 …
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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 …
The Importance of Biobanking in Modern Medical Research
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 …
Hubrecht Institute in Collaboration with Erasmus MC University Created Organoid Biobank to Study SARS-CoV-2 Genes
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 …
Open Source Imaging Consortium Launches Global Data Repository for Interstitial Lung Diseases
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 …
Reasons to Choose OpenSpecimen as your Biobanking LIMS
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 …
Better ‘Biobanking’ Could Pay Off for Organ Recipients
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. …
Cold is Gold for COVID-19 Scientists
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, …
Human Biospecimen Procurement Should Be More User Friendly
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 …