South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) research can now utilize a wider variety of biospecimens, such as blood, body tissue or faecal matter, thanks to the SMHS Biobank – a newly-developed, world-class biospecimen sample processing and storage service.
The first of its kind in WA Health, the biobank assists researchers by processing and storing up to 20,000 samples at –80 degrees Celsius. The extreme low temperature maintains the integrity of samples, such as red blood cells for up to 10 years.
One of the first SMHS research projects to utilize the SMHS Biobank, the ICU Prospective Observational Embedded Microbiome Study, or POEMS, is underway.
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