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How could a coordinated ecosystem of specialist biobanks improve global research?
Biobanks have become an essential cornerstone of medical research - enabling drug discovery and development, supporting biomarker research and deepening our understanding of disease mechanisms. As we advance towards an era of personalized medicine,...
Sample integrity versus storage temperature. What can we learn from penguins?
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicineaddresses concerns about reproducibility and replicability in scientific research. Sitting near the top of the “food chain”, it is imperative that sample management...
How can automation overcome sample degradation in biobanking?
Biobank research is essential for advancing our knowledge of the genetic make-up of diseases and supports a future of more powerful, personalized medicine. However, biobank research faces many challenges, including weak process links that threaten...
The world’s first pig biobank
A recent edition of Nature discusses a repository at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Germany of pig samples from a genetically engineered pig model of diabetes (Abbott, A. (2015)Nature519: 397-8). Samples from Boar 1339 were divided...