The Evolution of Biobanking and its Role in Precision Oncology
The Evolution of Biobanking and its Role in Precision Oncology
Biobanks fuel the multiomics-based practice of personalized oncomedicine and cancer biomarker discovery.
Biobanks fuel the multiomics-based practice of personalized oncomedicine and cancer biomarker discovery.
sample preservation
Fixing Freezer Failures
XiltriX | Nov 9, 2023 | 1 min read
Freezer failures can lead to significant sample loss, but researchers can take measures to prevent these events.
Ecologists Use Museum Specimens to Dig into the Parasitic Past
Ian Rose | Mar 1, 2023 | 4 min read
New techniques to quantify what lived in and on preserved animals throw light on how parasite abundance has changed over time.
Q&A: Gathering Diverse Microbiome Samples
Katherine Irving | Nov 3, 2022 | 8 min read
Cofounders of a microbiome biobank speak with The Scientist about their new partnership with nonprofit OpenBiome and how to ethically work with donors.
Doctors Date First COVID-19 Case in France to Late December
Ashley Yeager | May 5, 2020 | 2 min read
A retrospective analysis of stored respiratory samples shows one patient could have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 weeks before the coronavirus was thought to have arrived in France, but a critic of the result questions whether the sample was contaminated.
MilliporeSigma: Dialfiltration vs. Dialysis
The Scientist | Nov 21, 2019 | 1 min read
Diafiltration and dialysis can be used to exchange buffer in different ways. Learn more about when to use each in the video below.
Spoiler Alert
Wudan Yan | Mar 1, 2016 | 7 min read
How to store microbiome samples without losing or altering diversity