NIH will invest $1 billion to investigate ‘long COVID’
The United States has announced that it will spend big on research into ‘long COVID’ — the long-lasting health effects of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. The National Institutes of Health will fund …
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Future of Biobanking
Biobanks are acknowledged as a remarkable tool for research and scientific purposes. There are several types of biobanks, and two primary subtypes are – disease-oriented and population-based. The requirements for …
University of Cape Town Adopts OpenSpecimen
The University of Cape Town adopts OpenSpecimen as their Biobanking LIMS to manage COVID specimens. This project is funded by Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) a Geneva-based NGO accelerating the development, evaluation, …
Yale IMPACT Team Compiles COVID-19 Biorepository
As the coronavirus first started to spread across the globe last March, Yale experts came together to build a biorepository — or library — of COVID-19 patient samples. Their goal …
Rutgers Researcher Andrew Brooks Dead at 51
A research professor at Rutgers University who developed the first saliva test for the coronavirus has unexpectedly died on Jan. 23, the college said. As the chief operating officer and director of …
Over 90,000 Covid19 Specimens Archived Across National Biorepositories in India
India has archived over 90,000 samples of Covid-19 positive patients in 17 bio-repositories meant for research and development of vaccine and therapeutics for coronavirus. The government notified these bio-repositories on 23 May …
International Livestock Research Institute Adopts OpenSpecimen
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), with offices across Asia and Africa, adopts OpenSpecimen to manage various multi-site animal collections (e.g. swabs, saliva, tissue, etc). This is the second biobank after the University …
Hope Kenmore’s work with COVID19 at Weill Cornell Medicine Biobank
Read this article where the Biology alumna Hope Kenmore’ 20 describes her day-to-day work with the COVID-19 virus as an Institutional Biorepository Core Lab Technician at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) …
RENACER a Spanish Brain Metastases Network Launched
On January 25th, the bylaws of the National Brain Metastasis Network (or RENACER, its acronym in Spanish) were signed and the network’s first meeting was held. To date, 11 Spanish hospitals have joined the network …
Baylor College of Medicine upgrades to OpenSpecimen from caTissue
We are happy to announce that the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) has recently adopted OpenSpecimen as their “Biobanking LIMS.” The Pathology and Histology Core at BCM houses a tissue bank …