Although the word “biobanking” emerged in the 1990s, it has yet to acquire a set meaning. For some, the word encompasses the long-term storage functions fulfilled by biorepositories; for others, …
A major step toward transforming the understanding of cardiovascular and kidney disease in the millions of Americans with diabetes occurred when the National Institutes of Health designated the University of …
Mars Petcare is seeking 10,000 dogs and 10,000 cats for a biobank — an aggregation of biological samples, images, and other data — that aims to improve house pets’ health by …
In a recent article published in Nature, researchers analyzed 150,119 genome sequences from the United Kingdom Biobank (UKB). From the group of UKB volunteers, individuals were chosen pseudo-random and split …
German metabolomics firm Lifespin said that it has entered a collaboration agreement with Biobank Graz and the Clinical Division of Oncology of the Medical University of Graz to access clinical …
The Swedish government has decided to implement a new Biobanks Act, which is suggested to enter into force on 1 July 2023. The current Biobanks Act from 2003 has been …
Industrial advances have been associated with large-scale changes in the human gut microbiome and a higher incidence of complex human diseases. Rewilding the human gut microbiome by transplanting the whole gut …
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have begun collecting broad health information from 250,000 volunteers around the state in an effort to uncover better ways of treating …
The Biobank at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine contains samples and genetic information derived from UCHealth patients that can enrich the knowledge their providers use to treat them. “We …
“Many people tend to think of dermatology as mainly acne problems, basic skin ailments, and beauty issues,” says Dr. Helena Pasieka, assistant professor of Dermatology at the Uniformed Services University’s …