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American Donor Services (ADS) is an independent, non-profit organization specializing in tissue donation. Its mission is to improve lives through the gift of donation. ADS honors the spirit of donation by providing caring support to donor families, employing competent staff, and partnering with organizations that are dedicated to the innovative use of tissue for transplantation and research. We are registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ADS is also accredited with the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) and employs dedicated and experienced leadership and staff to sustain our program. The fundamental objective of ADS is to provide the opportunity of donation to individuals who have designated themselves as a donor and families who have the inclination and the potential to have their loved one become a tissue donor. ADS is dedicated to the cause of all donations and as such will support all other organizations in their parallel undertakings. We are committed to providing the best possible serivce to our Donor Families, Hospitals, Medical Donate Life Examiners, Coroners and Funeral Professionals.

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Radio National''s weekly foray into all things mental a program (podcast) about the mind, brain and behavior, hosted by Lynne Malcolm (previously by Natasha Mitchell). From dreaming to depression, addiction to artificial intelligence, consciousness to coma, psychoanalysis to psychopathy, free will to forgetting ��All in the Mind��explores the human condition through the mind''s eye. All in the Mind brings together unexpected voices, themes and ideas and engages with both leading thinkers and personal stories. Psychology and human behavior are only part of the equation. The program''s scope is considerably broader and explores themes in science, religion, health, philosophy, education, history and pop culture, with the mind as the key focus.

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A set of software tools created to rapidly build scientific data-management applications. These applications will enhance the process of data annotation, analysis, and web publication. The system provides a set of easy-to-use software tools for data sharing by the scientific community. It enables researchers to build their own custom-designed data management systems. The problem of scientific data management rests on several challenges. These include flexible data storage, a way to share the stored data, tools to curate the data, and history of the data to show provenance. The Yogo Framework gives you the ability to build scientific data management applications that address all of these challenges. The Yogo software is being developed as part of the NeuroSys project. All tools created as part of the Yogo Data Management Framework are open source and released under an OSI approved license.

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Center whose interests and activities encompass several facets of gastrointestinal regulatory physiology and cell biology. It provides an infrastructure to support basic, translational and clinical research and to facilitate interdisciplinary research and training activities in digestive diseases.

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A plugin based software tool that tries to integrate high throughput sequencing algorithms. It allows researchers to design and execute their experiments through a user friendly interface, enabling users to integrate di erent components of an experiment, e.g. algorithms and converters, into one graphically interfaced application that is very easy to use when working on remote servers as well as local computers. The graphical user interface facilitates a visual design of experiments by using a block diagram to represent the components (algorithms, converters, etc.) of an experiment as a pipeline. The users can easily modify this pipeline.

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National program to improve the diagnosis and assessment of cancer by moving scientific knowledge into clinical practice by coordinating and funding resources and research for the development of innovative in vitro diagnostics, novel diagnostic technologies and appropriate human specimens. The Cancer Diagnosis Program is divided into four branches: Biorepository and Biospecimen Research Branch (BBRB), Diagnostic Biomarkers and Technology Branch (DBTB), Diagnostics Evaluation Branch (DEB), and the Pathology Investigation and Resources Branch (PIRB).

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Certified by the federal government, LifePoint is the designated Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) for organ recovery services in South Carolina, excepting Aiken and Edgefield counties. LifePoint actively provides organ, tissue and ocular donor services to 62 hospitals throughout the state. We offer professional education about donation to the hospital staff members in order to maximize the amount and quality of donated organs and tissues. LifePoint also helps support and educate families at an emotionally devastating time, so they can make well-informed decisions about organ and tissue donation. Whether they decide for or against donation, our aim is to assure that they will feel they have made the right decision in the months and years to come.

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Society in Science The Branco Weiss Fellowship provides young researchers around the world with a generous personal grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for a maximum duration of five years. This research funding is designed to support postdoctoral researchers after their PhD and before their first faculty appointment. Those in current postdoctoral positions are also eligible. Society in Science was initiated and financed by the Swiss entrepreneur Dr. Branco Weiss, who passed away in October 2010. The program is coordinated by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH).

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Stem cell company focused on developing and marketing products to treat medical conditions in the inflammatory, autoimmune, orthopedic and cardiovascular areas. Now part of Smith and Nephew.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on January 9, 2023. Connectomes repository to facilitate the analysis of connectome data by providing a unified front for connectomics research. With a focus on Electron Microscopy (EM) data and various forms of Magnetic Resonance (MR) data, the project aims to make state-of-the-art neuroscience open to anybody with computer access, regardless of knowledge, training, background, etc. Open science means open to view, play, analyze, contribute, anything. Access to high resolution neuroanatomical images that can be used to explore connectomes and programmatic access to this data for human and machine annotation are provided, with a long-term goal of reconstructing the neural circuits comprising an entire brain. This project aims to bring the most state-of-the-art scientific data in the world to the hands of anybody with internet access, so collectively, we can begin to unravel connectomes. Services: * Data Hosting - Their Bruster (brain-cluster) is large enough to store nearly any modern connectome data set. Contact them to make your data available to others for any purpose, including gaining access to state-of-the-art analysis and machine vision pipelines. * Web Viewing - Collaborative Annotation Toolkit for Massive Amounts of Image Data (CATMAID) is designed to navigate, share and collaboratively annotate massive image data sets of biological specimens. The interface is inspired by Google Maps, enhanced to allow the exploration of 3D image data. View the fork of the code or go directly to view the data. * Volume Cutout Service - RESTful API that enables you to select any arbitrary volume of the 3d database (3ddb), and receive a link to download an HDF5 file (for matlab, C, C++, or C#) or a NumPy pickle (for python). Use some other programming language? Just let them know. * Annotation Database - Spatially co-registered volumetric annotations are compactly stored for efficient queries such as: find all synapses, or which neurons synapse onto this one. Create your own annotations or browse others. *Sample Downloads - In addition to being able to select arbitrary downloads from the datasets, they have also collected a few choice volumes of interest. * Volume Viewer - A web and GPU enabled stand-alone app for viewing volumes at arbitrary cutting planes and zoom levels. The code and program can be downloaded. * Machine Vision Pipeline - They are building a machine vision pipeline that pulls volumes from the 3ddb and outputs neural circuits. - a work in progress. As soon as we have a stable version, it will be released. * Mr. Cap - The Magnetic Resonance Connectome Automated Pipeline (Mr. Cap) is built on JIST/MIPAV for high-throughput estimation of connectomes from diffusion and structural imaging data. * Graph Invariant Computation - Upload your graphs or streamlines, and download some invariants. * iPad App - WholeSlide is an iPad app that accesses utilizes our open data and API to serve images on the go.

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An automated, flexible, and extensible analysis workflow that provides accurate and reproducible genomic results at scales ranging from individuals to large cohorts. The analysis pipeline is deployed in local hardware and the Amazon Web Services cloud via the DNAnexus platform.

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International registry that consolidates information from individuals with Phelan-McDermid Syndrome into a single database, which will be utilized by researchers to understand Phelan-McDermid Syndrome better. In order to accelerate translational efforts (moving from basic laboratory research to meaningful health outcomes, such as therapies and treatments) related to Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, PMSF is funding the Phelan-McDermid Syndrome International Registry. The Registry is important for characterizing and understanding the syndrome better. Not only will the Registry provide valuable information for families and doctors to make the best care decisions possible, it will be important to help researchers decide what are the most important challenges to address. The Registry will also help scientists find out if there are any PMS patients who might be a good match for their research studies. Collecting information from PMS patients is very important, but protecting the privacy of people affected by PMS is also extremely important. In order to protect your privacy, Patient Crossroads (the company that designed the registry software) has designed many safeguards. Your child''s information will be de-identified so no one who looks at the data can identify you or your child. Your child''s information will be assigned a code. If a researcher is interested in learning more about your child, the researcher will ask the Patient Crossroads/PMSIR genetic counselor to contact you. A scientist will not be able to receive any identifying information about your child unless you give explicit consent for your child''s identity to be released to that researcher. BE PART OF OUR INTERNATIONAL REGISTRY The Registry will provide valuable information for families and doctors to make the best care decisions possible, and it will help researchers decide what are the most important challenges to address in PMS. Establishing the registry addresses two important scientific needs. First, scientists studying PMS need accurate, firsthand information to understand how PMS affects people. Second, scientists who are ready to start studies, such as those that test new treatments, will be able to access The Registry to identify people that may be eligible to participate in studies. In either case, your privacy is assured while the cause of research is advanced. While raw data about PMS will be available to scientists, they won''t have access to any identifying information about your child unless you agree to have your child''s identity released.

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An interactive tool for neurobiologists to explore the detailed neuroanatomy, neuron connectivity and gene expression of the adult Drosophila melanogaster brain.

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The world''s largest collection of tick cell lines, enabling scientists to carry out advanced research. This biobank is establishing a collection of all the continuous cell lines derived from ixodid and argasid ticks of medical and veterinary importance available worldwide now and in future. Ticks are blood feeding arthropods which transmit many human and animal diseases. Research into prevention and cure of these diseases, which are caused by viruses, bacteria and protozoa, is greatly assisted by the use of cell culture systems which enable study of both how tick cells function, and how and why ticks transmit these disease-causing pathogens. Cell lines will always be shipped to recipient laboratories as growing cultures, since we cannot guarantee successful resuscitation of frozen stabilates. Tick cells in culture can tolerate the range of temperatures experienced during transit by air for up to a week. Training: We will provide training in tick cell line care and maintenance. This is an essential component of successful transfer of tick cells to, and their establishment in, laboratories with little or no previous experience of tick cell culture. Recipient scientists (preferably the person who will actually look after the cells) can visit the biobank for between 2 days and 2 weeks, depending on their level of previous experience, to be trained in the specific approach and methods for tick cell cultivation. Establishment of new cell lines: In response to requests and on receipt of suitable starting material (engorged female or moulting nymphal ticks), we will attempt to establish new cell lines from tick species or strains which are not already represented in the collection. Deposition of new tick cell lines: We invite researchers anywhere in the world who have established new tick cell lines to deposit samples for safekeeping free of charge and, if requested, for distribution alongside the existing biobank portfolio.

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A National Facility to promote research in Neurobiology using human nervous tissues. The brain tissues collected with informed consent of close relatives within 4-24 hours following death are frozen for Biochemical, Immuno-histochemical and Molecular Biological studies. A large number of formalin fixed brain tissues from various Neurological, Neurosurgical and Psychiatric disorders are also available for study.

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BBMRI is a pan-European and internationally broadly accessible research infrastructure and a network of existing and de novo biobanks and biomolecular resources. The infrastructure will include samples from patients and healthy persons, representing different European populations (with links to epidemiological and health care information), molecular genomic resources and biocomputational tools to optimally exploit this resource for global biomedical research. During the past 3 years BBMRI has grown into a 53-member consortium with over 280 associated organizations (largely biobanks) from over 30 countries, making it the largest research infrastructure project in Europe. During the preparatory phase the concept of a functional pan-European biobank was formulated and has now been presented to Member States of the European Union and for associated states for approval and funding. BBMRI will form an interface between specimens and data (from patients and European populations) and top-level biological and medical research. This can only be achieved through a distributed research infrastructure with operational units in all participating Member States. BBMRI will be implemented under the ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) legal entity. BBMRI-ERIC foresees headquarters (central coordination) in Graz, Austria, responsible for coordination of the activities of National Nodes established in participating countries. BBMRI is in the process of submitting its application to the European Commission for a legal status under the ERIC regulation, with an expected start date at the end of 2011. Major synergism, gain of statistical power and economy of scale will be achieved by interlinking, standardizing and harmonizing - sometimes even just cross-referencing - a large variety of well-qualified, up-to date, existing and de novo national resources. The network should cover (1) major European biobanks with blood, serum, tissue or other biological samples, (2) molecular methods resource centers for human and model organisms of biomedical relevance, (3) and biocomputing centers to ensure that databases of samples in the repositories are dynamically linked to existing databases and to scientific literature as well as to statistical expertise. Catalog of European Biobanks www.bbmriportal.eu Username: guest / Password: catalogue The catalogue is intended to be used as a reference for scientists seeking information about biological samples and data suitable for their research. The BBMRI catalogue of European Biobanks provides a high-level description of Europe''s biobanks characteristics using a portal solution managing metadata and aggregate data of biobanks. The catalogue can be queried by country, by biobank, by ICD-groups, by specimen types, by specific strengths, by funding and more. A search function is available for all data.

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An infrastructure to allow Quebec researchers to have at their disposal tumor banks and the services that support large scale research in genomics and proteomics. The database and the tissue bank of the research network was created to allow rapid access to biological samples and their clinical data. It is spread out over many hospital institutions (in Montreal, Quebec and Sherbrooke). The members of the RRCancer-BTD supply normal, benign and malignant samples from routine surgeries and blood tests. Blood and tissue samples are collected by the provincial biobanks on a regular basis and are coded, classified and stored. The samples can be supplied to a researcher either fresh or frozen or blocks of paraffin or on slices. The sharing of information and biological material is managed according to ethical rules and contributes to increasing the value of research in Quebec. The network has mobilized a significant number of researchers in the area of cancer that unite their efforts to pursue high caliber multidisciplinary research. They are a group of researchers from many different Qu��bec Universities all working in the branch of cancer research. They are located in four hospital centers in Quebec, namely the University of Montreal Hospital Centre (CHUM), the University of Quebec Hospital Centre (CHUQ), the University of Sherbrooke Hospital Centre (CHUS) and the McGill University Hospital Centre (CUSM), as well as in the affiliated research and university centers (Sacr��-Coeur, Maisonneuve-Rosemont and the Montreal Jewish Hospital). The collaborative efforts created and maintained in this network have allowed transfer of knowledge and the sharing of cutting edge technologies. RRCancer favors multidisciplinary cancer research in both fundamental and clinical scopes. The network is based on the desire researchers to work together to prevent cancer and improve therapeutic strategies, all the while continuing the very important task of raining new specialists and graduate students.

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The Alberta Cancer Foundation is more than a charity. It''s a movement for cancer-free lives today, tomorrow and forever. It''s a movement of those who know a cancer-free future is possible and who won''t settle for some day. It''s a movement of those who stand with Albertans who have no choice but to stand up to cancer. It''s a movement of those who know something can be done and are willing to do it. For those facing cancer today, in honour of those lost to cancer, and for generations to come, we promise progress. Our mission is to deliver progress in cancer research, prevention, treatment and care by generating community investment for Alberta''s coordinated research strategy, the Cross Cancer Institute, Tom Baker Cancer Centre and 15 other cancer centres throughout the province. The Alberta Cancer Foundation is a Registered Charity - Business Number 11878 0477 RR0001. Your dollar fights cancer on every front: research, prevention, screening, early diagnosis, education, treatment and care.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on February 28,2023. Software package to perform highly efficient genome scale alignments for hundreds of millions of short reads produced by the ABI SOLiD and Illumina sequencing platforms. It capable of providing full sensitivity for alignments within 4 mismatches for 50bp SOLID reads and 9 mismatches for 100bp Illumina reads.Efficient mapping of short sequencing reads with periodic full sensitive spaced seeds.

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The Tissue Procurement Shared Facility (TPSF) of the Comprehensive Cancer Center operates as a prospective service to collect, from UAB associated hospitals, normal, malignant, benign, and diseased fresh human tissues and fluids which are then preserved appropriate to protocol. The TPSF can provide normal, malignant, benign, or diseased remnant human tissues and/or fluids from surgical resections, autopsies, or clinical procedures for IRB-approved researchers. The preservation can include fresh storage in media or saline, snap-frozen storage in liquid nitrogen, freezing in OCT for frozen section preparation, or preservation in a fixative of choice. The TPSF can also provide procurement of control tissues including uninvolved tissues or matched tissues from patients with benign disease processes. The histology laboratory can provide paraffin blocks and/or stained or unstained slides. In addition, investigators can obtain access to rare tissues through the national Cooperative Human Tissue Network (CHTN). Although the facility operates as a prospective service specializing in the preparation of samples to protocol, limited banked frozen and paraffin-embedded samples may be available. Investigators are required to complete an application and provide a copy of their IRB approval as well as a brief description of the project for which the requested samples will be utilized. Samples are provided for research purposes only. Processing fees are to offset processing costs and should be included in all grant applications.

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