Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience Martien Kas of the University of Groningen has recently started a research study on mental health and social behavior as part of the Lifelines biobank project. …
Banking primary prostate cancer is challenging because the tumors are often difficult to visualize in the gross specimens and are frequently multifocal. However, biobanking tissue of high quality and fidelity is …
Al Jalila Foundation, a member of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, announced that it will establish the UAE’s first robotic biobank in partnership with the Mohammed Bin …
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Biobanks fulfill an essential role in advancing research and improving healthcare delivery by making high-quality, well-characterized, and related samples and data readily available for analysis. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly …
Overseen by a team of experts led by Dr. Dominic Mallon, a Clinical Immunologist at PathWest and Fiona Stanley Hospital, the WACIC Biobank was established with an understanding that immunity …
Introduction Genetic research requires access to large quantities of biological samples and data. The biobanks and databanks collect these samples and data directly from a research participant. This data is …
Through the Biobank Norge consortium, the core facility for biobank has received an allocation of almost 20 million from the Research Council. The biobank stores human biological material that has been collected …
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched the Molecular Characterization Initiative for pediatric tumors. This program offers tumor molecular characterization, also called biomarker testing, to …
It’s the cancer version of “mini-me.” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor David Spector, among others, has developed organoids, which are miniature, three-dimensional copies of cancers. Organoids can be derived …