OpenSpecimen – 2021 Annual Update
We ended 2021 on a high note with many new customers on board from across the world – USA, Netherlands, Singapore, Australia, etc. The best part is that we won …
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Biggest Imaging Study for Dementia at UK Biobank
The world’s biggest medical imaging study – part of the UK Biobank project – has scanned its 50,000th participant in Newcastle. The vast study collects masses of data on people …
Tinnitus Biobank Needed to Explain Ringing Ears Condition
The UK urgently needs a biobank library of human tissue samples so experts can study and find better treatments, or a cure, for “ringing in the ears”, says the British Tinnitus …
Returning Actionable Genomic Results in a Research Biobank
Research biobanks and other human research studies that collect and analyze DNA are increasingly confronted with the question of whether and how to return actionable genomic results to individual participants …
How Bias can Creep into Biobanks that Drive Precision Health and Clinical AI
In the race to harness medical data for artificial intelligence tools and personalized health care, a new study shows how easily unintentional design bias can affect those efforts. It also …
Evaluation of the Decision-making Experience of the Clinical Biobank Donor
The success of biobanking is directly linked to the willingness of people to donate their biological materials for research and storage. Ethical issues related to patient consent are an essential …
UK Biobank cohort to Predict Pancreatic Cancer
An association between diabetes mellitus (DM), especially, new-onset DM (NODM), and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is known; others have constructed polygenic risk scores (PRS) related to PDAC risk. An independent …
A Study on UK Biobank Participants Examines Complex Interactions Shaping the Myopia Epidemic
Myopia, or short-sightedness, is a significant global health problem estimated to affect 1406 million people (about 23% of the world’s population) as of 2000. And if you get the sense that there …
The Role of Bioinformatics in Bringing Biobanks to the Forefront of Scientific Breakthroughs
The biobanks have developed rapidly. They typically aggregate genetic information such as WGS (whole genome sequencing), WES (whole exome sequencing), and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) with a range of other …
MilliporeSigma Provides a Cost-effective 3-D Gastrointestinal Biobank
In vitro cell culture models are indispensable tools for translational research, but the biological relevance of 2-D cell lines is limited by reduced cell-to-cell interactions compared to original tissue niches. …