How to Buy Biospecimen Products for Research
As medical science advances, researchers and clinicians are finding new ways to use biologics to create products that help people live longer and healthier lives. So far, notable breakthroughs in …
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Dynamic Consent and Personalised Medicine
In Australia, guidelines for ethical conduct of human research are defined in the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research, which states: “consent should be a voluntary choice, and …
Plans Announced to Create New Manchester Headquarters for UK Biobank
Plans have been announced to create a new Manchester headquarters of the UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database and research resource. It follows news today (June 15) that UK Research …
Inequities in Alliance Acute Leukemia Clinical Trial and Biobank Participation: Defining Targets for Intervention
Representativeness in acute leukemia clinical research is essential for achieving health equity. The National Cancer Institute’s mandate for Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCCs) to define and assume responsibility for cancer control …
New study shows potential of UK Biobank to inform genetic disease research
A new study by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences examining population genetics across Europe has analyzed the diverse ancestries of people living in the UK. This knowledge has …
Mayo Clinic’s Living Breast Biobank
Mayo Clinic’s Living Breast Biobank has proved invaluable in a recent breakthrough study that demonstrates a novel mechanism through which female carriers of the BRCA1 gene may be at increased risk for …
Cryopreservation of Stem Cell-Laden Hydrogels
Tissue engineering involves the transplantation of stem cell-laden hydrogels as synthetic constructs to replace damaged tissues. However, their time-consuming fabrication procedures are hurdles to widespread application in clinics. Fortunately, similar …
NIH Launched INCLUDE Data Hub for Down Syndrome Research
The INCLUDE (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE) Project Data Coordinating Center (DCC) recently launched the INCLUDE Data Hub, a free-to-use, one-of-a-kind online tool for sharing, collecting and analyzing data specifically about …
Acutelines: University of Groningen establish biobank to understand acute diseases
When you are on your way to the emergency room with sirens wailing, you feel that things are serious. But how does the doctor know what to do when so …
Striking Biological Gold
Since the very beginning of the pandemic, the Harvard Medical School-led Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, or MassCPR, has been connecting scientists at different institutions with biospecimens for SARS-CoV-2 research. Now, MassCPR is …