OpenSpecimen v9.1 released
We are happy to announce that v9.1 is ready for download! This release includes new features, usability enhancements, and bug fixes requested by customers. Release highlights: Folders to organize carts …
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Biobanking as a Newsletter – Nov 2022
Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and valuable. Please do let us know …
Highlights of OpenSpecimen Community Meet (OSCON22) – USA and Australia
After three years gap, we conducted two successful ‘OpenSpecimen Annual Community Meet‘ (OSCON22) in St. Louis (USA) on Sept 19-20th and on Oct 18th in Perth (Australia). The goal of …
University Medical Center Utrecht goes live with OpenSpecimen!
Great news from OpenSpecimen! We proudly announce that on 13th Sept 2022, the University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands) central biobank successfully migrated from its old BIMS to OpenSpecimen. UMC Utrecht …
Biobanking as a Newsletter – Sept 2022
Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and valuable. Please do let us know …
Study Aims to Improve Health for All of Us
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is an enrollment site of the All of Us Research Program, a National Institutes of Health initiative to collect health information from 1 million …
University of the Western Cape Biobank Continues to grow after it earns Spot as One of Seven National Biobanks
South Africa ranks as the third most biodiverse country in the world. The rich biodiversity is a highly sought-after resource for the development of novel biobased products and processes and …
Biobanking Embraces Specialization and Interdependence
Although the word “biobanking” emerged in the 1990s, it has yet to acquire a set meaning. For some, the word encompasses the long-term storage functions fulfilled by biorepositories; for others, …
University of Florida Diabetes Institute to Establish Novel Biobank to Study Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease
A major step toward transforming the understanding of cardiovascular and kidney disease in the millions of Americans with diabetes occurred when the National Institutes of Health designated the University of …
A Massive Pet “Biobank” will Study Why Cats and Dogs Get Sick
Mars Petcare is seeking 10,000 dogs and 10,000 cats for a biobank — an aggregation of biological samples, images, and other data — that aims to improve house pets’ health by …