South Africa Launches National Biodiversity Biobank
South Africa has launched a central system to coordinate up to a million biological samples collected in the country over the past 200 years and scattered across its universities, research …
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Large-scale study using UK biobank data focuses on new insights into rare eye disorders
Researchers have analyzed image and genomic data from the UK Biobank to find insights into rare diseases of the human eye. These include retinal dystrophies – a group of inherited …
New Tissue Biobank to step up medical diagnostics in Qatar
Qatar has stepped up efforts for better medical research to treat specific diseases as well as to understand the human body, as authorities announced the launch of the Tissue Biobank …
Indonesia Ministry builds collaboration for biobank ecosystem
The Health Ministry is building collaboration with private pharmaceutical companies to support the establishment of a biobank ecosystem in Indonesia. The ecosystem will enable the collection of different biological samples …
A Review of Major Danish Biobanks
Biobank research may lead to an improved understanding of disease etiology and advance personalized medicine. Denmark (population ~5.9 million) provides a unique setting for population-based health research. The country is …
Bimetra Biobank: A High-Quality Biobank Facility to Stimulate Translational Biomedical Research
Bimetra Biobank is the central high quality biorepository of University Hospital Ghent in collaboration with Ghent University (Belgium). Fully operational since 2015 in a new state-of-the-art biobank facility, Bimetra Biobank …
Biobanking as a Newsletter – Feb 2023
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 …
Large-scale Biorepository Being Established to Understand US Military Musculoskeletal Conditions
Researchers with the Musculoskeletal Injury Rehabilitation Research for Operational Readiness (MIRROR) program at Madigan Army Medical Center (Madigan) are developing a biorepository, with the potential to be the most comprehensive …
DNA Biobank Developed for French Kidney Donors, Recipients
In the European Journal of Human Genetics, a team from the University of Nantes shares findings from a genetic- and clinical annotation-based analysis of the “Kidney Transplantation-Genomics Investigation of Essential …
Integrating Biobanks into Infectious Disease Surveillance
Technological advances in the first two decades of the 21st century have profoundly impacted medical research in many ways, with large population cohorts, biological sample collections and datasets through biobanks …