Challenges in Biobanking: Underutilization of Biospecimens
The underutilization of biospecimens stored in biobanks is a big problem. It is estimated that globally only about 10% of biospecimen are used. Underutilization is a problem because – It …
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University of Szeged to Develop Central Europe’s Most Modern Biobank
The University of Szeged (SZTE) has started assembling a biobank sample storage system using world-leading Liconic robotics and with the help of an international team of engineers. The complex equipment …
Biobanking as a Newsletter – May 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 …
Biosample Hub – a New Ethical & Transparent Way of Connecting Biobanks & Biotechs
Biosample Hub, based in Wales, is a new worldwide platform providing a game-changing solution to enable researchers in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to obtain the biosamples they need. Left-over …
The Cocaine and Oxycodone Biobanks for Addiction Studies
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are pervasive in society (Grant et al., 2016; Vadivelu et al., 2018), with dramatic societal and individual consequences. There are currently no FDA-approved pharmacological treatments for …
Wroclaw Medical University Biobank Adopted ISO 203287:2018 Standards
Wroclaw Medical University Biobank (WMU Biobank), the first biobank from the BBMRI-ERIC network made a great effort to integrate the international standard for biobanks – ISO 20387:2018 – into their work processes. The standard implementation …
College of Medicine Biobank Accredited by College of American Pathologists
The College of Medicine’s Institute for Personalized Medicine Biobank received accreditation for its exceptional storage, tracking and maintenance of samples from a national organization renowned for their quality assurance standards. The biorepository …
OpenSpecimen v8.0 Released
OpenSpecimen v8.0 has been released. Below are some of the enhancements included in the release: Customizable home page with widgets New Forms user interface User-level custom forms support for maintaining …
Creation and Maintenance of a Living Biobank at University of Rostock
In light of the growing knowledge about the inter-individual properties and heterogeneity of cancers, the emerging field of personalized medicine requires a platform for preclinical research. Over recent years, the …
What can Biobanks Learn From the Current Pandemic?
More than a year ago, something happened that most of us could hardly imagine. A virus took the whole world more or less firmly in its grip. Pandemic, previously a …