Strategies For Better COVID-19 Clinical Trial Design
More than 3,000 COVID-19 clinical trials have launched in the past year. That sounds like good news, but many of these are ill-suited for identifying interventions that save lives. Bloomberg …
Sharvari Gokhale
Arizona State University Renovated to Provide New Area for NEON Biorepository
A section of Arizona State University‘s Alameda Building, which houses the ASU Natural History Collections, is renovated to provide a new area for a biocollection named the NEON Biorepository. Nico Franz, …
UK Biobanking Showcase 2020 Highlights
The UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre (TDCC) held their annual conference UK Biobanking Showcase 2020 between the 12th and 16th October. This year’s conference was comprised of webinars and …
Living Biobank to House 800 Coral Species
An Australian conservation team is compiling a comprehensive living biobank of coral species, in case we need to rebuild the world’s reefs in the future. The Living Coral Biobank plans to …
Biobanking as a Newsletter – Oct 2020
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 your …
Official Opening of National Biobank Supervisory Office in Taiwan
A plaque unveiling ceremony for an office that will supervise the National Biobank Consortium of Taiwan, an integrated platform that seeks to establish a mega databank to promote the development …
The LSU Integrated Musculoskeletal Biobank to Find Solutions for Orthopaedic Diseases
The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health – New Orleans is spearheading a new effort to investigate and rectify disparities in orthopaedic diseases and their treatment. …
Australian First Chromosome 15 Disorders Biobank
The first biobank in Australia aiming to improve research and treatments into rare genetic diseases caused by changes to genes on chromosome 15, including Prader-Willi Syndrome and Angelman Syndrome, will …
Biobank Dedicated to Down Syndrome Research Launched
In December 2015, Lito Ramirez created DownSyndrome Achieves (DSA) with the mission to establish and maintain the first Down syndrome biobank in America open to all researchers studying the comorbidities, …
Should Biobanks be Used in Forensic Investigations?
In an international survey on genomics, it was found that less than half of the participants would share their DNA for research and medical purposes, citing trust as a major …