POSTS TAGGED AS biorepository

Scalable Automation for Small Labs

This piece, from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, is not a “how-to” guide for small labs, but rather [MORE]

Robotic -180 degrees C “Smart Freezer”

Smart Freezer
With biorepository freezers, costs go up as temperatures go down.  And, until recently it has been close to [MORE]

BGI and CHOP Begin Pediatric Genomics Work

Last fall, the Beijing Genomics Institute and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced their “Joint Genome Center” for discovering [MORE]

miRNA Insights to Hypertension

Many investigators have suspected that regulation of renin-an enzyme that mediates the extracellular fluids volume in blood-plays a key role [MORE]

Room Temp Tissue Fixative

The cost of holding tissue in a frozen state is a major barrier to clinical biorepositories building their specimen [MORE]

Why Biorepositories Are Important

Human Chromosome with Telomeres
Recently, Kaiser Permanente completed phase one of its biorepository project, where it collected blood samples from 100,000 [MORE]

Storing Specimens at Room Temperature

Sample Matrix
Recently, Biomatrica (San Diego) signed a cooperative research agreement with the US Army Medical Research Institute of [MORE]

Fox Chase’s Cancer Genome Institute

Life Technologies, Inc. (Carlsbad, CA)-formed from a 2008 merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems-has reached an agreement with [MORE]

Blood Separation Device with Wireless Data Export

ALYX Component Collection System
In announcing another of its FDA approved wireless data transmission for apheresis devices, Fenwal‘s Chief [MORE]

Human Susceptibility to Staph

It’s a reasonable thought that if a single base mutation in the DNA code for hemoglobin can result in [MORE]

Biorepository Collaboration

Liver Cancer Care
Earlier this year, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Merck agreed to create a nonprofit Asian Cancer Research Group [MORE]

A Boost for Biobanking

Stephen N. Thibodeau PhD
“Biobanking is really one of the cornerstones of a translational research program.  It all comes down to [MORE]

Technology Workshop on Biospecimen Collecting and Banking

Dutch diagnostic company Qiagen will be holding a one day seminar, June 9, 2010, on recent technical advances in [MORE]