Biobanking as a Newsletter – Sept 2022
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 …
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Study Aims to Improve Health for All of Us
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is an enrollment site of the All of Us Research Program, a National Institutes of Health initiative to collect health information from 1 million …
University of the Western Cape Biobank Continues to grow after it earns Spot as One of Seven National Biobanks
South Africa ranks as the third most biodiverse country in the world. The rich biodiversity is a highly sought-after resource for the development of novel biobased products and processes and …
Biobanking Embraces Specialization and Interdependence
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, …
University of Florida Diabetes Institute to Establish Novel Biobank to Study Cardiovascular and Kidney Disease
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 …
A Massive Pet “Biobank” will Study Why Cats and Dogs Get Sick
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 …
Researchers Assess UK Biobank Genome Sequences
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 …
Lifespin Taps Biobank Graz, Medical University of Graz for Oncology Patient Samples
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 …
Sweden to Implement a New Biobanks Act
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 …
Rejuvenating the Human Gut Microbiome
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 …