Biobanking (also called biorepository management) is the practice of collecting data and tissue samples and freezing it for the purposes of research. Usually these are human samples intended for medical research, though animal biobanks do exist. In the U.S. alone, there were an estimated 300 million tissue samples in biobanks in the year 2000. This...
Category: Lab management system
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...