Long-Term Room Temperature Storage of Dry Ribonucleic Acid for Use in RNA-seq Analysis

Biopreservation and Biobanking Vol. 15, No. 6
Li Qiyuan, Wang Xian, Liu Xiaopan, Liao Qiuyan, Sun Jianbo, He Xuheng, Yang Ting, Yin Jiefang, Jia Jia, Li Xue, Colotte Marthe, and Bonnet Jacques
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/bio.2017.0024?journalCode=bio
RNA is an essential biological material for research in genomics and translational medicine. As such, its storage for biobanking is an important field of study. …Read More

High DNA stability in white blood cells and buffy coat lysates stored at ambient temperature under anoxic and anhydrous atmosphere

PLoS ONE 12(11): e0188547
Anne-Lise Fabre, Aurélie Luis, Marthe Colotte, Sophie Tuffet, Jacques Bonnet
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0188547 
Conventional storage of blood-derived fractions relies on cold. However, lately, ambient temperature preservation has been evaluated by several independent institutions that see economic and logistic advantages in getting rid of the cold chain. Here we validated a novel procedure for ambient temperature preservation …Read More

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 …Read More