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

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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 …Read More

Evaluation of DNA/RNAshells for room temperature nucleic acids storage

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Biopreservation and Biobanking Vol. 13, No. 1
Liu X, Li Q, Wang X, Zhou X, He X, Liao Q, Zhu F, Cheng L, Zhang Y.
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/bio.2014.0060
Traditional nucleic acids preservation methods rely on maintaining samples in cold environments, which are costly to operate and time sensitive. Recent work validated that using room temperature for the storage of nucleic …Read More

Assessment of DNA encapsulation, a new room-temperature DNA storage method

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Biopreservation and Biobanking Vol. 12, No. 3
Clermont D, Santoni S, Saker S, Gomard M, Gardais E, Bizet C.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4128249/ 
A new procedure for room-temperature storage of DNA was evaluated whereby DNA samples from human tissue, bacteria, and plants were stored under an anoxic and anhydrous atmosphere in small glass vials fitted in stainless-steel, laser-sealed capsules (DNAshells(®)). Samples …Read More

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