Quality matters: 2016 annual conference of the national infrastructures for biobanking

On May 17–19, 2016, the Austrian, Italian, and French infrastructures for biobanking (BBMRI.at, BBMRI.it, and BIOBANQUES, respectively) organized a scientific conference in Nice, France, on the quality of biological resources. BBMRI.at, BBMRI.it, and BIOBANQUES are members of the Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI), which was established to increase efficacy and excellence of European biomedical …Lire la suite

Preservation of biospecimens at ambient temperature: special focus on nucleic acids and opportunities for the biobanking community

Biopreservation and Biobanking Vol. 14, No. 2
Muller R, Betsou F, Barnes MG, Harding K, Bonnet J, Kofanova O, Crowe JH; International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Biospecimen Science Working Group.
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/bio.2015.0022
Several approaches to the preservation of biological materials at ambient temperature and the relative impact on sample stability and degradation are reviewed, with a …Lire la suite

A novel method for room temperature distribution and conservation of RNA and DNA reference materials for guaranteeing performance of molecular diagnostics in onco-hematology: A GBMHM study

Clinical Biochemistry Volume 48, Issue 15, October 2015, Pages 982-987
Jean-Michel Cayuela, Carole Mauté, Anne-Lise Fabre, Olivier Nibourel, Stéphanie Dulucq, Eric Delabesse, Patrick Villarèse, Sandrine Hayette, Marie-Joelle Mozziconacci, Elizabeth Macintyre, on behalf of GBMHM
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009912015001289
Objectives
Performance of methods used for molecular diagnostics must be closely controlled by regular analysis of internal quality controls. However, conditioning, shipping and long …Lire la suite