Increasing the availability of high-quality biological samples through biobanks has the potential to advance global health research and speed up progress towards Sustainable Development Goals such as achieving universal health coverage, a UN science …
SARS-CoV-2 is a fatal disease of global public health concern. Measures to reduce its spread critically depend on a timely and accurate diagnosis of virus-infected individuals. During epidemics and pandemics …
What does it take to get people to recognize that a crisis exists? Sometimes it is necessary to tell people again and again and again, to overcome the in-built human …
The Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovations Dr. Monica Musenero has launched the National Research Biobanking framework at Next Media Park in Kampala. The substructure which was unveiled on September …
The National Irish COVID-19 Biobank (NICB) is an essential new component of Ireland’s response to COVID-19, in which the Health Research Board (HRB) has been playing a vital role since …
Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and useful. Please do let us know …
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar will soon have a brain bio-bank to facilitate neurobiology research. The one of its kind facility in eastern India will be …
Biobanking refers to the practice of collecting human and animal biological samples, including blood, urine, bone marrow, saliva, spinal fluid, and tissue, for research purposes to further our understanding of …
A team from the Hubrecht Institute in collaboration with Erasmus MC University, both the Netherlands, have developed an organoid biobank of mutant intestinal organoids to investigate the genes responsible for …
The Open Source Imaging Consortium (OSIC) today announced the launch of its global, data-rich repository of anonymized HRCT scans and clinical information regarding interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). This first-of-its-kind database is …