On January 25th, the bylaws of the National Brain Metastasis Network (or RENACER, its acronym in Spanish) were signed and the network’s first meeting was held. To date, 11 Spanish hospitals have joined the network …
We are happy to announce that the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) has recently adopted OpenSpecimen as their “Biobanking LIMS.” The Pathology and Histology Core at BCM houses a tissue bank …
Qatar Biobank – part of Qatar foundation-RDI – is hosting Qatar’s 2nd international biobanking conference, as a virtual conference this year in partnership with the European and Middle Eastern Society for Biopreservation and …
Biobanks empower clinical research to improve our understanding of complex diseases. Towards this, a wide range of equipment is available for sample collection, preparation, analysis, storage, barcoding, transport, etc. Automated …
Biobanking has been playing a crucial role in the development of new vaccines, drugs, biotechnology, and therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of a wide range of human diseases. This …
Children are disproportionally affected by Lyme disease, which is diagnosed in more than 300,000 persons in the United States each year. Clinicians diagnose Lyme disease using a 2-tier examination of …
Microbiomes are dynamic and complex systems consisting of – bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae, protists, and viruses. Microbiome research started back in the 17th century and rapidly evolved in subsequent years. …
In the spring of 2020, when instruction moved online and most research became remote, efforts picked up at the UW Carbone Cancer Center Translational Science Biocore BioBank. Researchers across campus …
A team at Norwich Research Park, who normally look after the safe storage of human tissue such as blood, saliva, stools, and tissue in state-of-the-art freezers for analysis by researchers …
In a study that has unprecedented implications to advance both medicine and biodiversity conservation, researchers have sequenced 131 new placental mammal genomes, bringing the worldwide total to more than 250. …