POSTS TAGGED AS biorepository

Freeze-Dried Cells in the Mail

Freeze-dried mouse sperm sent by mail
Reproductive biologists at the University of Yamanashi (Japan) “recently sent mouse sperm that was freeze-dried [MORE]

Preserving “Vouchered” Host Specimens

Epizootic / epidemic transmission cycles
MAIN has had several pieces over the years about biorepositories—mostly for preserving human blood and tissue [MORE]

Scripps Florida Acquires Pfizer’s Microbial Sample Library

Ben Shen microbial collection assembled by Pfizer
For nearly a century, the pharmaceutical company collected microorganisms of potential drug value.  Now [MORE]

PTSD Brain Repository

Transcription Factors
Post-traumatic stress disorder, which afflicts about eight million Americans, appears to be a proteomic disease. DNA from these suffererss [MORE]

CHOP’s Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine

Open Data Archives
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the nation’s oldest pediatric hospital and largest in terms of its research programs, has [MORE]

You’re a “Knockout!”

Regeneron Biorepository of Knockouts
In 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists (Oliver Smithies, Martin Evans, [MORE]

Biobanking an Economic Future

Cannon Towel Company
Kannapolis, NC saw itself as “the largest towel manufacturer in the world” until the Cannon Towel Company closed [MORE]

Automated Specimen Analyzer

VERSANT kPCR Molecular System
With an increasing number of medical centers building biorepositories capable of holding millions of tissue and fluid [MORE]

Geisinger-Regeneron’s Big Data Project

DNA Genomics Research
There’s a gold rush among major healthcare providers to acquire tissue samples for biobanks which in turn support [MORE]

Pilot in Clinical Genomics: Gene-Drug Interactions

Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York has enrolled (i.e. contributing blood samples) some 25,000 patients in its biorepository, [MORE]

Coriell’s “Gene Vault”

The renowned Coriell Institute for Medical Research (opened in 1956; Camden, NJ) has partnered with IBM to create Coriell [MORE]

Electonic Consent for Biobanking

Biorepository
Collecting blood and other biological samples from patients for a biorepository is the basis for a hospital doing research on [MORE]

Bone Marrow for Sale: $3,000

Bone Marrow
You decide: is bone marrow an organ or a liquid?  The difference is important, because for 28 years [MORE]

“Smarter” Test Tubes

With the aim of enhancing laboratory automation, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (St. Ingbert, Germany) [MORE]