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Tayside Tissue Bank is a secure bio-repository which holds small samples of surplus tissue and other specimens generously donated by patients who have undergone surgery or other more minor medical procedures during the course of their investigations and treatment. Such samples are vital for medical researchers seeking to improve the detection and treatment of many different diseases as well as advance our understanding of how and why they arise. This website is for both patients who wish to know more about how their tissue is used and for researchers who wish to explore the possibility of utilising the donations kindly made by patients to advance medical research. It also explains some of the additional services the Tissue Bank provides to assist researchers with their investigations including: embedding and cutting sections, standard histological staining, immunohistochemistry (IHC), nucleic acid extraction, protein extraction, and generation of Tissue Microarrays. Donations made to the Bank are held within ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers within the University of Dundee Medical School at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. The freezers are alarmed and their temperature continuously monitored. The Bank''s location adjacent to the Pathology Department means it is ideally situated for prompt processing and storage of tissue samples after they have been examined by a pathologist. In addition to collecting, logging and storing tissue samples the bank also holds blood specimens and other materials collected as part of national trials. It also plays a role in administering access to the Tayside Type II diabetes cohort. The Bank contains in the region of 30,000 fresh frozen tissue samples from around 6000 different patients. There are also in excess of 5000 blood samples. Storage of the samples is split between separate, continuously monitored freezers. In addition the Bank has access to the Pathology Department''s Histopathology Archive (30,000 new specimens annually).

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Independent, nonprofit research institute conducting client sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations, and other organizations. SRI also brings its innovations to the marketplace by licensing its intellectual property and creating new ventures. SRI was founded as Stanford Research Institute in 1946 by a group of West Coast industrialists and Stanford University. SRI formally separated from the University in 1970, and we changed our name to SRI International in 1977.

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NeuroDevNet, a Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE), is dedicated to helping children overcome neurodevelopmental disorders. Network investigators seek to understand the causes of neurological deficits, and to transfer this knowledge to health care professionals, policy makers, and communities of interest. NeuroDevNet works with its partners in academia, the community, not-for-profit sector, industry, and government, and across traditional disciplinary boundaries and sectors, to ensure generated knowledge is translated into tangible diagnostic, preventative, therapeutic, social, economic, and health benefits for all. NeuroDevNet supports transformative research, provides training to build a new generation of Canadian researchers, strengthens communities with the right tools and information, and translates research findings into early diagnostic, preventative, and therapeutic strategies for children with neurological disorders to live healthier lives. Currently, the network''s research focuses on autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. These demonstration projects are supported by NeuroDevNet''s central infrastructure and cores, including Neuroethics, Neuroinformatics, and Knowledge Translation.

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The Alzheimer's and Dementia Resource Center (ADRC) facilitates tissue donations for the Brain Bank Research Program in order to help find better treatments, more diagnostic tools and a cure for Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The Brain Bank Program is administered by Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach and under contract with the Florida Department of Elder Affairs. ADRC also provides caregivers with the educational resources, spiritual comfort and emotional support. The ADRC facilitates training for professional caregivers that meets requirements for the Florida Department of Elder Affairs.

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A Java application for reading, displaying, searching, comparing, and exporting metadata from medical image files: AFNI, ANALYZE, DICOM, ECAT, GE, Interfile, MINC, and NIFTI.

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An essential reference center in Europe and a leader in French-speaking Belgium that treats all types of adult and childhood cancer. They fight against cancer while giving patients comprehensive and humane care. Their quest for excellence is in three main academic fields: clinical care, research and teaching.

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A program that synthesizes, purifies, and distributes otherwise unavailable essential compounds to stimulate basic and clinical research in psychopharmacology relevant to mental health in areas such as the molecular pharmacology and signaling of CNS receptors, longitudinal studies to evaluate the molecular, biochemical, and behavioral actions of psychoactive compounds, and functional brain imaging in both primates and humans. WHAT IS AVAILABLE: * Ligands for CNS receptors, radiolabeled compounds for autoradiography and neuroimaging, biochemical markers, drug analogs and metabolites, and reference standards * Synthesis (including GMP) of promising compounds for mental health research, including preclinical toxicology and safety studies, especially compounds for PET neuroimaging * A listing of currently available NIMH CSDSP compounds is available online at www.nimh-repository.rti.org. RTI International scientists can provide investigators with technical assistance and additional information about the compounds on request. Data sheets containing purity, storage, and handling information are supplied with all NIMH CSDSP compounds. WHO IS ELIGIBLE: Investigators involved in basic or clinical research relevant to mental health are eligible to submit requests. To learn more about current NIMH research areas, please visit the NIMH website at www.nimh.nih.gov. NIMH CSDSP compounds are free to qualified academic investigators, but payment may be required from nonacademic requestors. Investigators interested in obtaining radiolabeled compounds but uncertain about what type of label or specific activity would work best for them may obtain help by communicating with the technical contacts listed on the website.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 11, 2023. A publicly available tool that contains data from the BforSMA clinical study ( ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT00756821 ), a pilot study to identify candidate biomarkers in blood or urine from a wide range of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) patients that associate with disease severity. It is hoped that the identification of candidate biomarkers will lead to clinical efficacy and longitudinal natural history studies to verify these markers and enable their use as validated pharmacodynamic markers, longitudinal progression markers, or surrogate endpoint measures in clinical trials.

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Common repository for diverse human microbiome datsets and minimum reporting standards for Common Fund Human Microbiome Project.

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Lifebanc is the nonprofit organ and tissue recovery organization for Northeast Ohio. As one of the original seven independent organ procurement organizations in the United States, Lifebanc serves nearly four million people and works with 80 hospitals in 20 counties. We are a member of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), which has been managed by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) since 1986. We also work closely with local partners, as well as the other Organ Procurement Organizations in the state of Ohio to educate the public and healthcare professionals about the benefits of and need for organ, tissue and eye donations. These organizations include Lifeline of Ohio; LifeCenter and Life Connection of Ohio. Along with serving the public, professional community and donor hospitals, Lifebanc provides life-saving organs to two transplant centers: The Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital Case Medical Center. Recovered tissue is transplanted countless times in hospitals throughout the region. Last year, Lifebanc helped to heal and save more than 25,000 lives. Additionally, it was instrumental in helping to perform the nation''s first near-total face transplant and establishing the world-record for lungs transplanted in a year.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on August 26, 2019.An international Non-Profit Organization that advocates Open Access for never-before-published research papers on the web and provides Self-Archiving platform to enable better knowledge sharing in a way that''s easy to publish. They collect scientific material (not only publications), e.g., Journal Articles, Theses or Dissertations, Departmental Bulletin Papers, Conference Papers, Presentations, Books, Technical Reports, Research Papers, Articles, Preprints, Learning Materials, Others. If you have such a paper and would like to add a Creative Commons license to your work, or if your working organization has no Institutional Repository (IR), Open your archives to spread them to the world. How to use: 1. Sign in with Twitter 2. Select PDF and add a Creative Commons license 3. Publish and Share on Social Media Video tutorial: http://myopenarchive.org/whatsmyoa

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The primary objective of the Quebec Leukemia Cell Bank is to support basic and clinical blood cancer research. It also serves to provide an infrastructure and services aimed at facilitating the work of researchers in various fields, such as oncology, hematology and immunology in particular. Several researchers have already benefited from this infrastructure in the course of their work. The main missions of the Quebec Leukemia Cell Bank are : * To set up a bank of well-characterized human blood tumor cells. The constitutional DNA is also stored for the majority of samples. A computerized databank includes all laboratory tests performed on these specimens, as well as the corresponding clinical data. Before this bank was created, the absence of access to adequate blood tumor specimens severely hampered our researchers'' efforts to competitively pursue their work. Also, the availability of these specimens now makes it possible to establish an essential link between the basic and clinical research communities. * Provide chromosomal analysis by conventional cytogenetics and spectral karyotyping (SKY) for human and mouse cells. * Contribute to the training of specialized staff and students. The Quebec Leukemia Cell Bank is a provincial program that groups together hematologists, researchers and clinical scientists from four Quebec universities (Universit�������� Laval, McGill, Sherbrooke, Montr��������al) and Quebec research centers. The cell bank has been in operation since 2001. The purpose of this website is to raise awareness about our cell bank so we can continue to help an increasing number of researchers.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Computational tool for profiling the composition of microbial communities from metagenomic shotgun sequencing data. It relies on unique clade-specific marker genes identified from reference genomes.

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Health Blog offers news and analysis on health and the business of health. The blog is written by Katherine Hobson and includes contributions from staffers at The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com and Dow Jones Newswires. A searchable interface allows the user to find topics of interest. Katherine Hobson has been writing about health and business for more than 15 years, including stints covering cancer, nutrition, exercise science, the U.S. economy and the U.K. beer industry.

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Devise better ways to prevent and treat vision loss due to amblyopia and strabismus, and to advance medical science by understanding the human visual system. Various Images, Videos and Talks related to the research are available. In the Laboratory for Visual Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco, we are seeking to discover how visual perception occurs in the human brain. The function of the visual system is to guide our behavior by providing an efficient means for the rapid assimilation of information from the environment. As we navigate through our surroundings, a continuous stream of light images impinges on our eyes. In the back of each eye a light-sensitive tissue, the retina, converts patterns of light energy into electrical discharges known as action potentials. These signals are conveyed along the axons of retinal ganglion cells to the lateral geniculate body, a relay nucleus in the thalamus. Most of the output of the lateral geniculate body is relayed directly to the primary visual cortex (striate cortex, V1), and then to surrounding visual association areas. To understand the function of the visual pathways, our research is focused on 5 major themes: * Organization of Primary Visual Cortex * Mapping of Extrastriate Visual Cortex * Amblyopia and Visual Development * Strabismus and Visual Suppression * The Human Visual Cortex

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Indiana Organ Procurement Organization (IOPO) is the non-profit health service dedicated to advancing organ, tissue, and eye donation throughout Indiana. Its mission is to save and enhance the quality of life through organ, tissue and eye donation. IOPO''s vision is to create the most effective and influential donation and transplantation delivery model in health care. IOPO, as a health services organization, is regulated by several agencies of the US government and maintains accreditations and compliance with regulatory requirements by strict adherence to quality.

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An integrated text mining / natural language processing system based on the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) Framework. It allows interoperability of text mining tools and allows the creation of text mining workflows, comparison and visualization of tools. U-Compare can be launched straight from the web or downloaded. As the name implies comparison of components and workflows is a central feature of the system. U-Compare allows sets of components to be run in parallel on the same inputs and then automatically generates statistics for all possible combinations of these components. Once a workflow has been created in U-Compare it can be exported and shared with other users or used with other UIMA compatible tools and so in addition to comparison, U-Compare also functions as a general purpose workflow creation tool. It contains a repository of 50+ biomedical text mining components. These components are included in the U-Compare single-click-to-launch package, ready to use by just drag-and-drop. You can also use this repository independent from the U-Compare system. Link with Taverna It has a link with Taverna for scientific workflows, http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/19/2486.abstract, where you can use U-Compare and its workflow from within the Taverna workflow. There are two ways, the U-Compare Taverna plugin and the U-Compare command line mode as a Taverna activity. We have recently integrated it with Peter Murray-Rust''''s OSCAR for Chemistry (see http://www.nactem.ac.uk/cheta/) Web Demo: http://www.nactem.ac.uk/software/cheta/

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 2,2026. A non-profit program providing tissue procurement services to the state of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Tissue Bank handles organ donation, works with organ donors, provides organ donation information and organ transplantation. The Wisconsin Tissue Bank staff provides service to hospitals, Medical Examiners/Coroners and Funeral Directors throughout the state of Wisconsin for the recovery of bone, related soft tissue, veins, skin, and cardiovascular tissue for donation and transplantation. The Wisconsin Tissue Bank is dedicated to the education of health care professionals and the public to promote organ and tissue donation. The Wisconsin Tissue Bank promotes an environment sensitive to the physical, emotional, spiritual, social and economic needs of both those served and those who provide the service.

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ELRA is the driving force to make available the language resources for language engineering and to evaluate language engineering technologies. In order to achieve this goal, ELRA is active in identification, distribution, collection, validation, standardization, improvement, in promoting the production of language resources, in supporting the infrastructure to perform evaluation campaigns and in developing a scientific field of language resources and evaluation. ELRA''s missions are to promote language resources for the Human Language Technology (HLT) sector, and to evaluate language engineering technologies. To achieve these two major missions, we offer a range of services, listed below and described in the Services around Language Resources section: - Identification of language resources - Promotion of the production of language resources - Production of language resources - Validation of language resources - Evaluation of systems, products, tools, etc., related to language resources - Distribution of language resources - Standardization The promotion of the production of language resources also includes our support of the infrastructure for evaluation campaigns and our support in developing a scientific field of language resources and evaluation, e.g. via the LREC conference. ELRA also regularly conducts market studies and surveys in the field of HLT, and publishes a quarterly newsletter, distributed not only to its members but also to a large number of people in the HLT community.

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BioBank that collects, stores, processes and distributes biospecimens and the associated data. The biospecimens are human and non-human genetic materials, proteins, cells, tissues and biofluids. The data are the biological information associated to the samples and, in the case of human samples, the clinical information pertaining to the donor. The da Vinci European BioBank (daVEB) is a multicenter biobank with a centralized IT infrastructure and a main repository located at the Polo Scientifico (Scientific Campus of the University of Florence) in Sesto Fiorentino (Florence, Italy). Hosted by the Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), an expert center on protein structure and metabolomics, daVEB's aim is to host as rich as possible biological human sample collections, stored accordingly to EU guidelines, in order to offer a powerful tool in the study of complex diseases. At the end of July 2011, the da Vinci European BioBank of the Pharmacogenomics FiorGen Onlus Foundation has been audited and got the quality certification according to UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 for Collection, storage and distribution of biological samples and the associated data for scientific research. Besides the samples stored at da Vinci European BioBank in Sesto Fiorentino (Florence), the daVEB is also the administrative biobank for research sample collections that are stored in the delocalized repositories. All the sample collections must be registered in the biobank: * sample collections taken within the regular health care * samples taken from healthy individuals or other persons out of the regular health care * samples that have been taken in hospitals within research protocols on specific pathologies all transferred to daVEB endowed with a transfer agreement signed by the donor. The Research Units actually afferent to daVEB are delocalized in the Florence, Prato, Pisa and Siena provinces. Delocalized repositories are under construction in Tuscany.

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