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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on February 07, 2013. A multidisciplinary neuroscience laboratory in which basic and clinical scientists work side by side exploring neural mechanisms and models of mental and cognitive function and of neuropsychiatric illness. Experiments are performed at many levels of inquiry, from basic molecular biology of the gene to clinical examinations of patients. A major area of investigation of this laboratory is the genetic mechanisms implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and its treatment. The laboratory is organized as a multi-disciplinary team of investigators with a common mission: to identify and fully characterize basic genetic and neurobiological mechanisms of schizophrenia and related cognitive and emotional disorders. The various components of this effort are centered various different units or divisions represented by groups of investigators, at various levels of training and experience, working on related experiments. The Director of the Branch and of the Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program (GCAP) is Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D. The CBDB is the principle research laboratory in the created (2003) Genes, Cognition, and Psychosis Program (GCAP) of the NIMH. After twelve years of residing on the pastoral grounds of St. Elizabeths Hospital, in Southeast Washington, CBDB moved back to the main NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland in 1998. While the unique setting of St. Elizabeths is irreplaceable, we have occupied beautiful new laboratories and clinic spaces that were created for us, and we are in the mainstream of NIH life., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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A clinical research department that specializes in the study of Alzheimer's disease. The Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center conducts many types of research studies related to dementia, as well as normal or successful aging. The purpose of the center is to provide care for dementia patients and promote research and education on Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias.

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A collection of brain tissue from individuals suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse, as well as healthy individuals. The research mission of the NIMH Brain Bank is to better understand the underlying biological mechanisms and pathways that contribute to schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as to study normal human brain development.

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The USC Geriatric Studies Center includes the State of California Alzheimer's Research Center of California and the National Institute of Aging funded clinical program of the USC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. It is staffed by USC faculty and physicians with expertise in Alzheimer's disease and age related memory loss. The Center provides evaluation, diagnosis and treatment recommendations, referral to caregiver services and support groups, and the opportunity to participate in clinical drug trials for memory problems.

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Non profit organization and informational portal directed towards patients and families. AFA is an umbrella orgnization uniting over 1600 member organizations to collaborate on education, resources, best practices and advocacy. AFA provides several grant opportunities for AFA's nonprofit member organizations and to individuals in need.

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A collection of tissue and related clinical data for breast cancer. The Bank stores three types of information on each case within a secure location in CancerCare Manitoba. This information relates to the tissue, clinical, and follow-up information. Tissue information includes the composition of the tissue, the size and type of tumor. Clinical information includes the patient age, clinical symptoms and the results of clinical tests such as x-rays. Follow-up information includes the type of treatment after surgery and the response to this treatment. The Bank provides an important resource both for breast cancer research at the University of Manitoba and for researchers across Canada and internationally. Researchers are charged to cover the costs of storage and release but no tissue or information is sold. The Bank has supported over 50 research studies on breast cancer across North America and Europe. Information is never released from the Bank with any label that might allow it to be traced to an individual. Information is only released as part of a set of anonymized cases, where each case is labeled by an anonymous tumor bank number and consists of a section of tissue with related information. Researchers can apply to study these cases only through a review process and if they obtain approval for their research project from an institutional ethics review board. If approved, researchers are provided with tissue sections and the related clinical information from a set of typically 100 or more ����??cases����??. These cases are carefully selected from the computer database on the basis of selection criteria such as size and type of tumor that are relevant to the research question under study. During the assessment of each breast biopsy specimen small tissue samples are taken by Pathologists to process and examine under a microscope and these samples are then stored as a ����??clinical archive����??. After all diagnosis has been completed the Bank organizes these tissues and related clinical data into ����??cases����?? for both future research and future clinical purposes and stores these ����??cases����?? in CancerCare Manitoba. All cases are distinguished by a Tumor Bank number but are anonymous due to the absence of any tag that might allow it to be traced to an individual patient.

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The main goal of PROCURE is to provide science and humanity with means to help prevent and cure prostate cancer a disease which this year alone will be diagnosed in an estimated 25,500 Canadian men and one which will, on average, take the lives of 85 men every week. PROCURE strives to redefine the boundaries of research and knowledge by: * Initiating an on-going dialogue with the public and healthcare community to provide needed information and support through accessible means such as: ** A comprehensive website in French and English ** Lectures and special events ** Free book on prostate cancer * Funding and structuring over time a bank of biological materials and data on men with prostate cancer as well as those at risk of developing the disease. Such a Biobank, as it is known, will accelerate breakthrough scientific discovery. Join our alliance today by informing yourself and loved ones. Encourage the other men you care about to have an examination. Make a contribution to our cause. Help us keep information on this site up-to-date. In doing so you will become part of the force against prostate cancer!

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A biomaterial supply resource which collects and disseminates over 1500 brains and links tissue specimens to patient data. The Brain Endowment Bank distributes brain tissue specimens to scientists worldwide who are investigating neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases, as well as to scientists involved in ongoing studies on the affects of aging. Its overall objective is to support basic and clinical research activities by providing a systematic method for obtaining detailed pre-mortem clinical information, developing procedures for optimizing brain autopsies, cryopreserving neuropathological specimens, and obtaining neuropathological diagnoses after death.

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Software to help selecting up to five oligo probes for each of the DNA sequences you provided for microarray spotting.

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Virgin Health Bank was developed to meet the needs of families in the UK who are considering banking their baby''s cord blood stem cells and want the support of an ethically motivated cord blood bank committed to delivering high quality service. We provide an HTA licensed state-of-the-art processing and storage service for parents who would like to store the stem cells from their newborn baby''s umbilical cord blood. * Uniquely we offer you a choice of cord blood banking services; your family can choose from our Family Banking service or our Community Banking service. * We empower UK families to make informed decisions about storing their baby''s cord blood stem cells by providing them with accurate and honest information and do not pressure them into buying our services. * Stem cells from our cord blood bank have been used for transplantation by Doctors in the UK''s National Health Service and we''re proud to operate under a license issued to us by the Human Tissue Authority. If you choose our Family Banking service or our Community Banking you will be informed once your baby''s stem cells have been safely collected, tested and stored. If you have chosen our Community Banking service then we will separate the unit into two elements. Your family''s portion of the unit will be treated in exactly the same way as those in our Family Banking service. It is your family''s and nothing will be done to it or with it without your express written permission. We will test the cells to determine the HLA type. Information on the element of the stem cell unit that you have chosen to donate to the community will be included on an international registry alongside those of others. The registry provides real hope to families and individuals afflicted with diseases where cord blood stems cells are approved for treatment. Doctors use this registry as a resource from which they can request donated cord blood for treatments. These are used in circumstances where a tissue typed, donated unit is required rather than the patient''s own. By contributing to the development of this international registry you maximize the availability of stem cells for the treatment of your family and others. By helping others you also help yourself by helping to develop a community stem cell bank from which your own family may benefit.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented September 6, 2016.

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Founded in 1997 with the mission to provide a new source of microbial extracts for drug discovery, agrochemical, enzyme, and specialty chemical research. Discovery company pursuing untapped sources of chemical diversity and identifying lead candidates derived from microorganisms for development of new chemical entities.

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When a patient suffering or thought to be suffering from cancer is cared for, samples are often taken to determine the precise diagnosis and to determine any treatment necessary. After this essential stage of the patient''s care, unused biological material is sometimes left over. This material is an essential and precious tool for research into cancer. For this reason, patients can decide to make the material available to researchers the world over who study either the development mechanism of cancer or the new treatments available. Residual samples are centralized and stored in the Tumor Bank at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Cancer Centre. The research carried out on this material primarily benefits cancer patients. It can help improve existing treatments or discover new drugs, and also allows new diagnostic tools to be tested. Any financial profits obtained from assessing the results obtained are entirely reinvested in the work of the Cancer Centre''s Tumour Bank and in new research projects at the Catholic University of Louvain. Using and sharing material, and verification and retrospective analysis of clinical data, all comply with strict rules. As with donations of blood, marrow or organs, an Ethics Committee oversees the operations of the Tumour Bank and research projects. This committee is responsible for ensuring compliance with current Belgian and legal texts, especially those concerning the protection of patient privacy and rights.

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A biomaterial supply resource containing over 600,000 samples of human tissue, serum, DNA, and RNA. Samples are handled consistently according to validated protocols and each tissue sample comes with detailed demographic information, gold standard clinical diagnostic information, complete drug history, full pathology reports, and complete phenotypic data.

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Transcriptome database of acutely isolated purified astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes. Provides improved cell-type-specific markers for better understanding of neural development, function, and disease.

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A suite of parallel bioinformatics applications based upon a popular open-source Java implementation of MapReduce, Hadoop.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 6, 2016. Biobehavioral blog on research and medicine as a continuum from biological mechanisms to behavioural phenomena., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on August 19, 2019. The Functional Catalogue is an annotation scheme for the functional description of proteins of prokaryotic and eukaryotic origin. Taking into account the broad and highly diverse spectrum of known protein functions, the FunCat consists of 28 main functional categories (or branches) that cover general fields like cellular transport, metabolism and cellular communication/signal transduction. The main branches exhibit a hierarchical, tree like structure with up to six levels of increasing specificity. In total, the FunCat version 2.1 includes 1362 functional categories. This general concept was retained since the annotation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome with only 4 revisions and later on also proved to be well suited for the annotation of genomes from different domains of life (Ruepp et al. 2004). The present and previous versions as well as a version mapping file of the FunCat and annotation data of our core projects can be downloaded via FTP. The MIPS Functional Catalogue Database provides a search tool to browse and search the Functional Categories including the FunCat Number, description, EC number, GO number or keywords associated with the categories. All FunCat annotated proteins and the amount of Co-annotated-FunCats can be retrieved starting with a specific category in a selected organism. A statistical survey of the functional distribution of a given set of genes/entries, e. g. a set of genes with up-regulated expression under a certain condition can be retrieved.

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