The Coriell Institute for Medical Research has added a new collection of stem cells to its biobank offerings. The new collection is a result of a collaboration between Coriell and the Rett …
Scientists will seek to develop a new technology to limit the number of chickens required for research. Their approach will involve freezing chicken reproductive cells and using sterile surrogates to hatch …
At the TiE Women Regional Finals, Dr. Jugnu Jain, co-founder of Sapien Biosciences, walked away with the top honors. Her start-up, founded in 2012, is a biobank/repository of patient samples. …
An international, biospecimen registry on Staphylococcus aureus in fixation or arthroplasty showed higher rates of MRSA in North American patients and poorer subjective outcomes among those with MRSA vs. methicillin-sensitive S. aureus. Researchers …
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) announced the rapid expansion of its Biosamples supply network, creating one of the largest virtual biobanks worldwide accessible to life science innovators. MDC welcomed Audubon Biosciences, Biomex, Caltag Medsystems and Tissue …
The Assembly of Members of the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) appointed Professor Jens K. Habermann as the new Director-General. The distinguished scientist, …
Glomerular diseases, a set of debilitating and complex clinical disease entities affecting individuals of all ages, are associated with significant mortality and morbidity, including hospitalization and ESRD. Although there are …
The Cornell Veterinary Biobank has received a $2.5 million federal grant to process, store and distribute biological samples for the Dog Aging Project, a massive national effort to study aging in dogs …
The establishment of a COVID-19 biorepository of specimens from the maternal-neonatal dyad is a critical first step to answering questions about the impact of COVID-19 infection on the pregnant patient …
Pediatric hydrocephalus is a devastating and costly disease. The mainstay of treatment is still surgical shunting of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). These shunts fail at a high rate and impose a …