Sample Science Blog

Moving a lab across campus can be a daunting task for an academic research institute – and moving a lab across the country can be a stressful undertaking for a principal investigator.

The cassette is simple right? It’s an aluminium frame used to protect blood bags and assist in heat transfer during the controlled-rate freeze step of product development. But there's more.

Even though it sounds a lot like “rocks for brains,” BRICKS in your biobanking inventory management software is a good thing. Bricks give you a way to configure software that works for your lab.

Organ donation is the first step in giving life and hope back to patients who are desperately waiting for a transplant. Securing a match between a donated organ and a patient is the next step.

Countless choices can make it difficult to decide on a small item. But when you are trying to select biobanking inventory management software for your samples – your decision becomes significant.

Built-in security measures and a continuity plan are crucial components of a secure plan to store and transport large vaccine collections.

Researchers can only reuse clinical samples for future studies if participants give informed consent for them to do so. Most scientists do not get this consent. So a lot of valuable samples sit useless in storage.

In the event a temporary facility shutdown interrupts lab operations, it is imperative to maintain viability of sample collections and minimize downtime.
 

Specially designed containers using liquid nitrogen are used to ship large collections of samples. Read on for more info about moving large volumes of biological material.