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 …
News
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, …
University of Guam Biorepository receives 30,000-specimen coral collection
A biorepository of Micronesian marine specimens at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory is welcoming its largest addition yet—a private collection of around 30,000 coral specimens from Richard Randall, a …
The Hidden Role of Biobanks in Covid-19 Research
Without samples from patients infected with Covid-19, it would have been unachievable to make the genome of SARS-CoV-2 virus genome accessible to the entire scientific community and develop effective vaccines …
Coriell Institute Awarded $4.6 Million from NHGRI to Maintain Biobank
The National Human Genome Research Institute has renewed its collaborative agreement with the Coriell Institute for Medical Research. For another five years, Coriell will continue to manage the NHGRI Sample …
Live Cell Bank at Weill Cornell Medicine for Individualized IBD Therapies
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City believe their leading-edge repository of tissue samples can generate more answers for clinicians who treat children with inflammatory bowel disease. In …
CF Foundation Launches Lung Transplant Biorepository and Patient Registry
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Consortium (CFLTC) Biorepository and Registry. The CFLTC Biorepository and Patient Registry, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, …
Dayton Living Tumor Bank for Pediatric Brain Research
Brain cancer recently passed leukaemia as the deadliest cancer for children. Yet there hasn’t been much progress over the years when it comes to understanding causes and finding treatments. Some …
Banking on the Future of Oesophageal Cancer Research
Read this interview with Dr Marina Zaki, manager of Barrett’s Oesophagus BioBank at St James’s Hospital, Dublin. Marina talks about Oesophagus biobanking, how she developed an interest in biobanking and …