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Biobank Graz is a non-profit central Medical University of Graz (MUG) service facility that provides the logistics and infrastructure to optimally support MUG research teams in the collection, processing and storage of biological samples and their associated data. In the course of this, special attention is given to sample and data quality and to the protection of the individual rights of patients. Samples from selected patients at the Graz LKH-University Clinical Centre, who have signed an informed consent declaration, are deposited in Biobank Graz. This means that excess tissue and blood samples are collected and placed in storage. The samples are harvested in the course of routine interventions undertaken by the different departments and institutes of the Graz LKH-University Clinical Centre and approved for use in research projects only after the completion of all necessary laboratory and histopathological analyses. No additional material is removed: in other words, there are no associated drawbacks whatsoever for the patients involved. Biobank Graz operates a quality management system according to ISO 9001:2008 and offers the following services for the processing and storage of biological samples and the handling of data: * Consistently high sample quality through the processing of samples using standardized methods in accordance with written working instructions (SOPs) * Efficient use of resources through the building of shared infrastructure and the development of optimized processes * A high degree of reliability provided by the storage of samples in 24/7 - monitored storage systems. * Processing and storage of all data in accordance with data protection legislation. Biobank Graz comprises both population-based and disease-focused collections of biological materials. It currently contains approx. 3.8 mio samples from approx. 1.2 mio patients representing a nonselected patient group characteristic of central Europe. Because the Institute of Pathology was, until 2003, the exclusive pathology service provider for major parts of the province of Styria, including its capital Graz (population approx. 1.2 mio people), samples from all human diseases, treated by surgery or diagnosed by biopsy, are included in the collection at their natural frequency of occurrence and thus represent cancers and non-cancerous diseases from all organs, and from all age groups. The scientific value of the existing tissue collection is, thus, not only determined by its size and technical homogeneity (all samples have been processed in a single institute under constant conditions for more than 20 years), but also by its population-based character. These features provide ideal opportunities for epidemiological studies and allow the validation of biomarkers for the identification of specific diseases and determination of their response to treatment. Prospectively collected tissues, blood samples and clinical data comprise, on the one hand, randomly selected samples from all diseases and patient groups to provide sufficient numbers of samples for the evaluation of the disease-specificity of any gene or biomarker. On the other hand, Biobank Graz adopts a disease-focused approach for selected diseases (such as breast, colon and liver cancers as well as some metabolic diseases) through the collection of a range of different human biological samples of highest quality and detailed clinical follow-up data. Graz Medical University established the Biobank to provide improved and sustainable access to biological samples and related (clinical) data both for its own academic research and for external research projects of academic and industrial partners. It is a major interest of the university to initiate co-operative research projects. Biological samples and data are available to external institutions performing high-quality research projects which comply with the Biobank''s ethical and legal framework according to the access rules (Contact: COO Karine Sargsyan, MD, PhD).

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Public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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• 17 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

AIDS and HIV Research is a disease-related portal that includes Articles, News, Jobs, Free Journals, Links, Forum, Structures, Labs & Rankings. * AIDS and HIV research links are profiled and rated. You can rate each website and view the websites in a number of categories including portals, blogs, databases, software and several other categories. Below you will find the top 10 rated AIDS and HIV research links. * Recent AIDS and HIV research literature is highlighted. We have taken the entire set of AIDS and HIV research articles and arranged them according to their previous or expected citation rate. This allows you to quickly identify the most important articles in the field. * Recent AIDS and HIV research news and press releases are highlighted. We scour over 20,000 news sources to bring you the latest AIDS and HIV research news. * AIDS and HIV research laboratories are featured. We have actually profiled nearly 99% of all AIDS and HIV research laboratories. We have also ranked all labs based upon the citation rating of the papers of the principal investigator. Laboratories may alter information on each lab page including picture, publications, affiliation, and biography. You will find the top 20 AIDS and HIV research laboratories.

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Life Alaska Donor Services is the tissue donation organization serving the state of Alaska, offering the option of donation to families who have suffered a death in Alaska. Life Alaska was established in 1991 as the state''s tissue donation program. Since that time, Life Alaska has had many donors and has supplied thousands of tissues for transplantation to Alaskan patients. Life Alaska works in partnership with the federally designated Organ Procurement Organization in Washington (LifeCenter Northwest) to provide education on tissue and organ donation throughout the state. Tissue donations have taken place across the state, from Barrow to Ketchikan. The age criteria for transplantable tissues and organs are generally from birth to 80 years of age, with patients of any age being candidates for research. Tissues donated to Life Alaska are first offered to Alaskan patients and physicians before being made available outside the state. Organs are shared using the federally mandated national sharing system operated by the United Network for Organ Sharing and are first offered to transplant centers in the Pacific northwest.

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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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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

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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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

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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