The growing importance of biobanks cannot be overstated and is increasing the pressure placed on these facilities to deliver larger quantities of high-quality samples from their repositories.

The growing importance of biobanks to research cannot be overstated. This is accompanied by increasing pressure for biobanks to deliver high-quality samples and go beyond just simply knowing sample ...

In the early days of the pandemic, personal and professional aspects of Carlos D. Bustamante's life were converging. His daughter had just fallen ill with a post-infectious condition at a time when he ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped human evolution.

Hampton Roads parents, and others, have a new opportunity for storing some of the basic building blocks of human beings for use in treating diseases and conditions all over the body. The Telomerix ...

A world leading UK Biobank study of half a million Brits could unlock the mysteries of ‘proteomics’ to prevent and cure diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis UK Biobank lab to ...

The UK Biobank is an unprecedented resource that has provided researchers with essential data from half a million people between the ages of 40 and 69, who regularly give samples of saliva, blood, and ...

In a bid to tackle future disease outbreaks in the country, the Canadian Government is partnering the Lagos State Government to build a Biobank and a biological laboratory at the Mainland Hospital, ...

As West Africa’s Ebola outbreak winds down, an effort is under way to make the best use of the tens of thousands of patient samples collected by public-health agencies fighting the epidemic. On 6–7 ...

India’s first-of-its-kind state-of-the-art Animal Stem Cell Biobank and Animal Stem Cell Laboratory opened at the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad. Union Minister of State ...