Biopreservation & biobanking

Abstracts from the Amphibian Ark Biobanking Advisory Committee Workshop Towards a Biobanking Strategy for Amphibian Conservation September 6-8, 2010 London and Portsmouth, UK.

Abstracts from the Amphibian Ark Biobanking Advisory Committee Workshop Towards a Biobanking Strategy for Amphibian Conservations from the Amphibian Ark Biobanking Advisory Committee Workshop Towards a Biobanking Strategy for Amphibian Conservation

Chinese biobanking initiatives.

Due to the requirement for comprehensive clinical research efforts in China, the importance of biobanking in modern clinical research is outlined in this overview. Hospitals, universities, and research institutes have been well organized as fundamental resources for Chinese biobanking initiatives and the resulting bio-sample collections. Here, a brief history and time line of development of bio...

The biobank at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Noninvasive Quality Control of Cryopreserved Samples.

We present a novel noninvasive technology for quality control in biobanking. We implemented a contactless optical in situ method with a remote detection unit. The method detects physical and chemical changes by emission spectroscopy. In the present study, ice formation in a vitrified sample is revealed by Raman scattering. The technology allows us to monitor sample quality during cold storage a...

The 2015 ISBER Annual Meeting & Exhibits in Phoenix, Arizona, USA: bridging the canyon-connecting biobank communities through innovations in global health, research and environmental preservation.

Validation of free flow electrophoresis as a novel plasma and serum processing and fractionation method in biobanking.

Free flow electrophoresis (FFE) is a fractionation method, based on isoelectric focusing (IEF). We validate the reproducibility of the method and show that it can be applied by biobanks in order to fractionate fluid biospecimens efficiently and reproducibly and to facilitate downstream proteomic applications. We also propose a simple method allowing researchers to assess the reproducibility of ...