The Importance of a Well-Organized Biobank

What is a Biobank? Biobanks are laboratories that collect and organize human specimens such as blood, saliva, plasma, DNA, and even whole organs for the purpose of research and donation. Some are government funded. For 36% of biobanks, government is the largest funding source. And the government provided some amount of funding to 57% of...

Jamaica Institutes New Anti-Doping Measures

Typically, the field of biobanking is brought up when discussing major medical breakthroughs in the treatment of everything from heart disease to different cancers. However, biobanking software is used in a variety of fields, including environmental research and more commonplace clinical testing. Because of the latter usage, biobanking may be able to help restore the...