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The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP), in partnership with the Duke University School of Medicine Research Foundation and Department of Pathology (SOMRF), has established the Duke IGSP Biospecimen Repository as a centralized and accessible biological resource for Duke Investigators and research programs. The Repository is a standardized, regulatory-compliant and privacy protected repository for fluid and tissue biospecimens, and enables Duke investigators to reduce costs, and eliminate redundancies and significant risks associated with alternative biobanking practices, while facilitating integration of clinical trials and translational research programs with molecular profiling technologies. In order to ensure sample and data integrity and comparability, the Biorepository is developing, evaluating, and implementing evidence-based biobanking ''best practices''. Centralization of activities to a dedicated and expert staff and facility allows small and large research programs to reduce costs through elimination of redundancies and achieving efficiencies and economies of scale. The Duke-IGSP Biorepository is committed to ensuring appropriate consent, approved use, and protection of privacy through compliance with HIPAA regulations and IRB guidelines. The Duke-IGSP Biospecimen Repository will facilitate the integration of clinical research programs with molecular profiling technologies, enabling large-scale ''omic'' research programs that will inform and drive the development of new generations of targeted diagnostics, therapies, and preventions, which in turn will transform clinical outcomes.

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The UAB Alzheimer's Disease Center provides comprehensive treatment for Alzheimer's patients while also promoting research for the prevention and cure of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The ADC is an interdisciplinary program of scientists working in areas including neurology, psychiatry, genetics, and psychology. The Center provides comprehensive treatment and promotes research for the prevention and/or cure of Alzheimer's disease and other related disorders with memory loss and impaired cognition. A major emphasis of research is the maintenance of a clinical research database comprised of neurological, medical, and neuropsychological test data from participants seen in the ADRC Clinical study since 1999, many of whom have been followed for several years in the study.

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The Duke Biobank is an institutional resource that combines well-annotated clinical data with a standardized, regulation compliant, cost efficient repository for both fluid and tissue, connected via information systems to a large scale, long-term biobank in Kannapolis, in order to foster breakthroughs in research; while ensuring the strictest adherence to ethical standards and regulations. Our goal is to work with investigators to maintain biorepository collections which are in compliance with all relevant local, regional and national and IRB biobanking standards. Capabilities * Provide expert consultation in planning and design of biobanking programs * Access, process, aliquot, store and distribute a wide array of liquid and tissue biological samples * Maintain informatics capabilities to accurately and efficiently track samples and link to clinical and laboratory assay data * Use the Duke Biobanking Guidelines document (in development) as guidance on scientific, ethical/legal, and operational to ensure quality and standardization of biospecimen collection * Minimize redundancy of infrastructure, as appropriate, across Duke Medicine. Duke University offers both on- and off-campus options for investigators seeking biobanking services. Our biobanking facilities are: * The Center for Human Genetics (CHG). Serves as the primary on-campus biobank for liquid sample storage for Duke Medicine, and as a portal between Duke and the LabCorp Biobank. * Duke Hospital South Tissue Bank. Serves as a sample portal for the Duke Biobank, and as the primary facility for tissue storage for Duke Medicine. ** DCCC Tissue & Blood Procurement ** IGSP Biospecimen Repository * LabCorp Biorepository. Located in Kannapolis, NC, this is the preferred storage center for large-scale, infrequently accessed sample collections

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Alzheimer''s Disease International (ADI) believes that the key to winning the fight against dementia lies in a unique combination of Global Solutions and local knowledge. As such, it works locally, by empowering Alzheimer associations to promote and offer care and support for people with dementia and their carers, while working globally to focus attention on dementia. Our board is composed of people from around the world, and our staff team is based in London. ADI is the international federation of Alzheimer associations around the world, in official relations with the World Health Organization. Each member is the Alzheimer association in their country who support people with dementia and their families. ADI''s vision is an improved quality of life for people with dementia and their families throughout the world. ADI runs the Alzheimer University, a series of practical workshops aimed at helping the staff and volunteers of Alzheimer associations build and strengthen their organisations. ADI holds an annual international conference which is the longest running international conference on dementia. The conference is a unique multi-disciplinary event which unites people with an interest in dementia from around the world. World Alzheimer''s Day, celebrated on September 21 each year, is an opportunity to raise global awareness about dementia and its impact on families and the important work of our members throughout the world. Medical research is also important, and some of ADI''s member Alzheimer associations actively support research in their own countries. More information about research can be found on the web sites of Alzheimer''s Association (USA), Alzheimer''s Society (UK), Alzheimer Society of Canada, or the association in your country. For the fourth year, the Fondation M��d��ric Alzheimer and ADI are running Alzheimer''s Awards for evidence-based psychosocial interventions for people with dementia and their carers.

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At BioStorage Technologies, our mission is to provide our clients with world class, biorepository services, exceeding clients����?? expectations of service, value and quality while setting the industry standard for the storage, management & logistics of samples. Offering onsite or outsourced management of sample assets, BioStorage Technologies manages the complete life-cycle of samples. With a team of global sample experts, state-of-the-art temperature-controlled storage facilities, and a real-time web-based sample intelligence and tracking system, the company supports customers in maximizing opportunities, minimizing risk and reducing the cost of sample management. The unique advantages of BioStorage Technologies * Consulting����??Expert consulting on Good Storage Practices, global transport standards, standard operating procedures and business continuity planning to mitigate risk and optimize your resources * Consolidation����??Comprehensive management of the sample lifecycle through consolidation of sample data into one technology system for faster retrieval, more flexible tracking and enhanced security * Control����??Enhanced control of sample asset data within one technology system, ISISS, for faster go/no-go decisions and expansion into future research * Compliance����??Improved chain of custody of your samples and easier audit trail tracking for adherence to quality and regulatory compliance standards in order to support product approvals * Cost-Reduction����??Reduced cost of sample management and increased project ROI through more efficient sample and data management processes, enabling you to refocus resources on your core competencies BioStorage Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is privately held and headquartered in North America in Indianapolis, Indiana with an additional full-service site in Europe near Frankfurt, Germany.

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THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on March 21, 2013. Laboratory portal of Ray Truant, PhD. It provides an image gallery and videos.

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The Alzheimer Society of Ireland is the leading dementia specific service provider in Ireland. The Society is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity - CHY 7868. The Society was founded in 1982 by a small group of people who were caring for a family member with Alzheimer''s Disease or a related dementia. Today, it is a national voluntary organization with an extensive national network of branches, regional offices and services that aims to provide people with all forms of dementia, their families and carers with the necessary support to maximize their quality of life. As the major dementia-specific service provider in Ireland, The Society''s network includes over 100 dementia specific services such as day care centers, home care services, carer support groups, social clubs, a national respite center and an advocacy service. The Society also operates the Alzheimer National Helpline Service offering information and support to anyone affected by Alzheimer''s disease / dementia at 1800 341 341. For a full list of services in your area please see the We Can Help section. The Society comprises over 2,500 members, 300 volunteers and over 700 full and part-time staff. The Society has 6 regional offices and a network of Branches around the country. A number of core functions are operated through our national office including information, policy and research, fundraising, public relations, training and finance.

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The taxonomy database of the International Sequence Database Collaboration contains the names of all organisms that are represented in the sequence databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence. The database is available via the EBI SRS server of ftp.

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LifeShare Transplant Donor Services of Oklahoma strives to recover healthy, transplantable organs and tissues through careful screening and management of donors to provide the maximum number of lifesaving/life-enhancing organs and tissues for patients awaiting transplantation in Oklahoma. It is committed to providing a better quality of life for those people who require organ or tissue transplantation, while respecting and honoring those families who share the gift of life. LifeShare emphasizes a person''s decision to be an organ and tissue donor and whenever possible will honor the decision of the individual to donate. It works hard to provide education to the state of Oklahoma about organ, eye and tissue donation. Education is provided to medical professionals who identify and care for potential organ and tissue donors, and recognize donation as continuing to care for the patient and their family. LifeShare strongly supports research and development to improve the quality and availability of organs and tissues for transplantation and the success of human transplantation in general. It is also committed to providing support and comfort to grieving families who have suffered great loss.

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The Department of Neurology & Psychiatry aims to 1) provide the best psychiatric and neurological care to patients and their families, 2) discover and investigate new treatments for psychiatric and nervous system disorders, 3) study psychosocial processes in psychiatric and neurological illness, and 4) educate the next generation of practitioners, as well as our patients and the lay community. The Department of Neurology & Psychiatry (DNP) was established on June 1, 2007. The Department has 34 faculty members and is planning continued expansion. There are 7 psychiatrists, 18 neurologists, 4 child neurologists, and 5 NIH-supported PhD investigators. The DNP is one of five departments in the country that combines the disciplines of neurology and psychiatry. We are unique in having two strong residency programs and are the only that attempts to establish a new paradigm in care of patients with neurological and psychiatric disease through co-management initiatives. * Division of Psychiatry: The Psychiatrists work within four areas: Adult, Geriatric, Community, and Forensic Psychiatry. * Division of Neurology: The division has an extremely active stroke/intensive care and general neurology service. We are expanding services in neurocritical care and interventional neurology. * Education: The DNP has approximately 25 residents/fellows in each discipline. * Research: The DNP has robust programs in clinical, basic, and translational research. We emphasize 3 areas in this overview of the DNP. ** Clinical Research Unit ** Psychosocial Processes Group ** Translational Neuromuscular Disease VISION STATEMENT All members of the Saint Louis University Department of Neurology & Psychiatry will collaborate to support state-of-the-art neurological and psychiatric education, compassionate patient care, and a growing research enterprise. The Department will develop the most exciting intellectual environment in the Nation for investigation, treatment, and training in psychiatry and neurology. We will fulfill this Vision in an environment of mutual respect and collaboration.

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An Antibody supplier

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Our robust searchable Tissue Bank database at US Biomax contains normal, non-cancerous disease and cancer samples, just a fraction of total paraffin tissue bank. Use advanced search function to define your search. Some of them have H&E images. Our tissue repository, tissue bank has huge paraffin tissue blocks, a large selection of histology tissue section slides of human cancer, normal tissue, rhesus and cynomolgus normal fresh frozen tissue as well as paraffin blocks and slides. It has also normal human organs in paraffin embedded tissue blocks as well as rhesus and cynomolgus monkey normal organ tissues. Snap frozen (fresh frozen) tissue of rhesus/cynomolgus monkey are also available. We also provide tissue array, custom tissue microarray (with samples you provided or from our tissue bank) as well as OEM services. Other products/services available include tissue microarray, paraffin tissue sections, histology services and quantitative telomerase detection kit.

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Software tool for gene set enrichment analysis for expression time series, which can incorporate existing knowledge and analyze the dynamic property of a group of genes that have functional or structural associations. The installation file is for Windows., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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Open-source software for network visualization and analysis helping data analysts to intuitively reveal patterns and trends, highlight outliers and tells stories with their data. It uses a 3D render engine to display large graphs in real-time and to speed up the exploration. Gephi combines built-in functionalities and flexible architecture to: explore, analyze, spatialize, filter, cluterize, manipulate and export all types of networks. Gephi runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is based on a visualize-and-manipulate paradigm which allow any user to discover networks and data properties. Moreover, it is designed to follow the chain of a case study, from data file to nice printable maps. It is open-source and free (GNU General Public License). Applications: * Exploratory Data Analysis: intuition-oriented analysis by networks manipulations in real time. * Link Analysis: revealing the underlying structures of associations between objects, in particular in scale-free networks. * Social Network Analysis: easy creation of social data connectors to map community organizations and small-world networks. * Biological Network analysis: representing patterns of biological data. * Poster creation: scientific work promotion with hi-quality printable maps. Gephi 0.7 architecture is modular and therefore allows developers to add and extend functionalities with ease. New features like Metrics, Layout, Filters, Data sources and more can be easily packaged in plugins and shared. The built-in Plugins Center automatically gets the list of plugins available from the Gephi Plugin portal and takes care of all software updates. Download, comment, and rate plugins provided by community members and third-party companies, or post your own contributions!

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Institute for the study of theoretical biology with a focus on evolutionary developmental biology and cultural complexity.

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Until recently, a scarcity of high-quality myeloma tissue has posed one of the greatest challenges in advancing myeloma research and drug development. Now, with the successful establishment of the MMRC Tissue Bank, researchers for the first time have access to the critical mass of high-quality tissue needed to rapidly validate novel and combination therapies for myeloma. The MMRC Tissue Bank is the only resource of its kind that integrates myeloma tissue samples with corresponding genomic and clinical data. To date, the MMRC Tissue Bank has accrued more than 2,700 samples with matching peripheral blood samples, with ongoing collection of tissue samples at Member Institutions nationwide. To further accelerate accrual, the MMRC has also launched a direct-to-patient program to enable myeloma patients to donate their tissue to the MMRC Tissue Bank. Notably, all tissue accrued into the MMRC Tissue Bank is uniformly collected and stored in adherence with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) standards and under the governance of more than 50 standard operating procedures. The MMRC has also established a quality assurance unit that performs weekly internal quality assurance reviews and issues quarterly quality assurance reports. In addition, the MMRC Tissue Bank has been audited twice by external organizations since its inception last year. With these stringent practices in place, the MMRC has ensured that all tissue samples in the MMRC Tissue Bank are of the very highest-quality and, as such, has quickly become the premier resource for industry seeking fresh tissue samples to initiate strong validation work.

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The primary aim of the KLI Theory Lab is to highlight interconnections between topics of problems of research on evolution and cognition that look theoretically or methodologically promising. Quite often such correlations remain unrecognized because of the disciplinary closure that characterizes the organization of the scientific enterprise. * Introductory Resources: Introductory texts to various relevant disciplines, provided by the Konrad Lorenz Institute include: ** Introduction to Artificial Intelligence ** Introduction to Artificial Life ** Introduction to Cognitive Science ** Introduction to Cultural Evolution ** Introduction to Developmental Biology ** Introduction to Epistemology & Philosophy of Science ** Introduction to Ethology & Sociobiology ** Introduction to Evolutionary Biology ** Introduction to Evolutionary Epistemology ** Introduction to Genetic Epistemology ** Introduction to History and Social Sciences ** Introduction to Normative Issues ** Introduction to Philosophy of Biology ** Introduction to Philosophy of Mind ** Introduction to Theoretical Biology * Reference Database: The KLI Theory Lab contains a vast collection of research papers that have been selected based on their significance and quality. ** Search references: The search page allows you to search for references and to narrow down your search based on keywords. Results are ordered by relevance. ** Browse references: All references in the database, ordered by date of publication.

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Cryogenic facility for human tissue and fluid samples under management of Brown University Division of Biology and Medicine and supports biomedical research on Brown campus and across affiliated hospitals of Warren Alpert Medical School.

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Wikikidney.org is an effort to prevent kidney diseases and achieve better outcomes in those who have end stage renal disease. Our mission is to use this medium to make the public more aware of kidney disease in a sincere effort to prevent it when we can, and to help our colleagues achieve good outcomes in those who already have end stage renal disease. Our role is to provide as much information as possible to patients, professionals and the general public, with the hopes that this education will be a motivating factor in making the necessary changes to prevent or stall chronic kidney disease. After nearly two decades of seeing patients with end stage renal disease, it is apparent that much of what we deal with can be delayed or prevented altogether. Several medical trials and innovations in the last several years have confirmed these observations, and form the basis of this website. A major element in preventing renal illness is simply early detection, and for this one needs education. As the Internet expands and becomes more and more a tool of everyday life, we will have the ability to access and distribute information like no other generation before us. Qualified readers are encouraged to contribute to existing articles and to create articles of their own. Contents * 1 Kidney Resources - NIC * 2 Especially for Patients * 3 General Kidney Resources * 4 Issues in Nephrology * 5 Clinical Wiki Projects * 6 Be an author, editor or reviewer on wikikidney * 7 Clinical Trials * 8 Newsdesk Top Stories * 9 Essential Physician Resources * 10 Organizations * 11 Government Agencies * 12 Vendor and other Sites * 13 Patents * 14 Index

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The primary blood supplier for Ochsner Medical Center, Ochsner Health Center - Kenner, Ochsner Health Center - West Bank, Ochsner Baptist Health Center, Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital and Lady of the Sea General Hospital in Cut Off. In addition, Ochsner Blood Bank participates in blood-resource sharing with other local community hospitals. Ochsner Blood Bank''s mission is to provide an adequate and safe blood supply for the hospitals and communities Ochsner serves. More than 45,000 blood components were transfused just last year. There''s also supporting information that indicates there will be a significant increase in transfusions for the current year. Blood replacement removes some of the costs of blood, but more importantly it provides patients with a safe and adequate blood supply. It''s likewise insurance that blood will be readily available should the need arise. If you happen to need blood during a hospital stay, please consider asking your family and friends to replace the blood that was transfused. Ochsner offers a blood replacement plan that takes care of everything. It even provides coverage for your family members, or other designated individuals, to receive the replacement units for up to one year should they need them.

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