Man, if they roast any biobanks next we are going to lose some incredible resources www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
French blood banks hacked in latest cyber-attack on Europe
Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Man, if they roast any biobanks next we are going to lose some incredible resources www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Happy #OneHealthDay, everyone! True story: if we want people to live longer, healthier and happier lives, we need to take a holistic approach that balances the health of people, animals and ecosystems.
Here’s how #biodiversity #biobanks can help…
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Here’s how #biodiversity #biobanks can help…
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November 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Happy #OneHealthDay, everyone! True story: if we want people to live longer, healthier and happier lives, we need to take a holistic approach that balances the health of people, animals and ecosystems.
Here’s how #biodiversity #biobanks can help…
bbsa.org.za/2025/11/03/o...
Here’s how #biodiversity #biobanks can help…
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☝️ Register for the webinar: Data quality in biobanks - The Federated Data Quality Framework
Learn how the FDQF tool assesses biobank data quality without centralising the data.
19 November - 15:00-16:00 CET - online
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Learn how the FDQF tool assesses biobank data quality without centralising the data.
19 November - 15:00-16:00 CET - online
🔗 Register: buff.ly/eUzzNwH
🔗 More info: buff.ly/bdxpchL
November 5, 2026 at 10:12 AM
☝️ Register for the webinar: Data quality in biobanks - The Federated Data Quality Framework
Learn how the FDQF tool assesses biobank data quality without centralising the data.
19 November - 15:00-16:00 CET - online
🔗 Register: buff.ly/eUzzNwH
🔗 More info: buff.ly/bdxpchL
Learn how the FDQF tool assesses biobank data quality without centralising the data.
19 November - 15:00-16:00 CET - online
🔗 Register: buff.ly/eUzzNwH
🔗 More info: buff.ly/bdxpchL
Motivation: omic data give us an enormous amount of info at the molecular level, and biobanks are increasingly adding them to their cohorts. But there’s still much we don’t know about how these molecules vary across populations and over time.
November 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Motivation: omic data give us an enormous amount of info at the molecular level, and biobanks are increasingly adding them to their cohorts. But there’s still much we don’t know about how these molecules vary across populations and over time.
How do people from communities historically underrepresented in genomics research feel about participating in biobanks, and what motivates them to take part? The Claw and Johnson labs are exploring these important questions through community focus groups ➡️ https://cudbmi.info/voices-biobank-1
November 5, 2026 at 9:26 PM
How do people from communities historically underrepresented in genomics research feel about participating in biobanks, and what motivates them to take part? The Claw and Johnson labs are exploring these important questions through community focus groups ➡️ https://cudbmi.info/voices-biobank-1
bbmri.cz held a meeting in the scenic Vysočina region at Kraskov Hotel on 21–22 October 2026, bringing together representatives from member biobanks and observers: buff.ly/3KhVYFj
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November 3, 2026 at 8:49 AM
bbmri.cz held a meeting in the scenic Vysočina region at Kraskov Hotel on 21–22 October 2026, bringing together representatives from member biobanks and observers: buff.ly/3KhVYFj
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The bbmri.be Sustainability Working Group has published a paper introducing BIOCOST, a costing tool developed and tested across Belgian biobanks to support transparent cost calculations, long-term sustainability and informed decision-making: buff.ly/9dsef3y
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November 3, 2026 at 8:49 AM
The bbmri.be Sustainability Working Group has published a paper introducing BIOCOST, a costing tool developed and tested across Belgian biobanks to support transparent cost calculations, long-term sustainability and informed decision-making: buff.ly/9dsef3y
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Resonant Clinical Solutions Unveils Comprehensive Asset Management Programs for Biobanks#USA#Toronto#Sample_Management#Resonant_Solutions#Biobank_Services
Resonant Clinical Solutions Unveils Comprehensive Asset Management Programs for Biobanks
Resonant Clinical Solutions launches innovative programs to optimize sample management strategies in clinical trials, enhancing data integrity and operational efficiency.
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October 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Resonant Clinical Solutions Unveils Comprehensive Asset Management Programs for Biobanks#USA#Toronto#Sample_Management#Resonant_Solutions#Biobank_Services
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This study was only possible thanks to a collaboration of >100 co-authors, biobanks, pharma partners, direct-to-consumer companies, and, most importantly, the nearly 3 million participants who shared their data. I am immensely grateful for their participation.
This study was only possible thanks to a collaboration of >100 co-authors, biobanks, pharma partners, direct-to-consumer companies, and, most importantly, the nearly 3 million participants who shared their data. I am immensely grateful for their participation.
October 28, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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This study was only possible thanks to a collaboration of >100 co-authors, biobanks, pharma partners, direct-to-consumer companies, and, most importantly, the nearly 3 million participants who shared their data. I am immensely grateful for their participation.
This study was only possible thanks to a collaboration of >100 co-authors, biobanks, pharma partners, direct-to-consumer companies, and, most importantly, the nearly 3 million participants who shared their data. I am immensely grateful for their participation.
Biobanks can tell you a prescription was issued. Not if anyone took it 💊
New piece from PhD researcher Steven Mitchell, Ross Murphy and Ryan McNally on why that matters for resistant #hypertension research, and how we can fix it 🔨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New piece from PhD researcher Steven Mitchell, Ross Murphy and Ryan McNally on why that matters for resistant #hypertension research, and how we can fix it 🔨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 26, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Biobanks can tell you a prescription was issued. Not if anyone took it 💊
New piece from PhD researcher Steven Mitchell, Ross Murphy and Ryan McNally on why that matters for resistant #hypertension research, and how we can fix it 🔨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New piece from PhD researcher Steven Mitchell, Ross Murphy and Ryan McNally on why that matters for resistant #hypertension research, and how we can fix it 🔨
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Special Issue: Twin Registries in the Era of Biobanks and Register-Based Research
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Twin Research and Human Genetics: Volume 29 - Twin Registries in the Era of Biobanks and Register-Based Research | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Twin Research and Human Genetics - Volume 29 - Twin Registries in the Era of Biobanks and Register-Based Research
www.cambridge.org
October 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Special Issue: Twin Registries in the Era of Biobanks and Register-Based Research
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while bidding against China and Russia for the same litters, and has to purchase 200 dogs to field 100 because the rest wash out with bad hips, bad eyes or cancer. Warhound biobanks the best Malinois and Shepherds that already passed, clones them, edits out the career-ending
October 23, 2026 at 4:43 AM
while bidding against China and Russia for the same litters, and has to purchase 200 dogs to field 100 because the rest wash out with bad hips, bad eyes or cancer. Warhound biobanks the best Malinois and Shepherds that already passed, clones them, edits out the career-ending
Who Owns Your DNA? Genetic Privacy in the Age of AI Surveillance
From maternity wards to institutional biobanks, who controls our genetic information? Exploring consent, genomic surveillance, data sharing and the growing risks to biological privacy.
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From maternity wards to institutional biobanks, who controls our genetic information? Exploring consent, genomic surveillance, data sharing and the growing risks to biological privacy.
flip.it/mPcb7O
C is for: Coercive Genomics, Surveillance, and Shared Institutional DNA
Explore the ethics of coercive genomics and genetic surveillance. Discover how shared institutional DNA databases impact privacy, civil liberties, and genetic autonomy. An article by The C Word.
flip.it
October 22, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Who Owns Your DNA? Genetic Privacy in the Age of AI Surveillance
From maternity wards to institutional biobanks, who controls our genetic information? Exploring consent, genomic surveillance, data sharing and the growing risks to biological privacy.
flip.it/mPcb7O
From maternity wards to institutional biobanks, who controls our genetic information? Exploring consent, genomic surveillance, data sharing and the growing risks to biological privacy.
flip.it/mPcb7O
Also, incident proteomic disease prediction is accurate (often outperforming existing clinical and CBC models) and generalizable across multiple biobanks, with simpler models performing as well or better than AI/deep learning. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Generalizability of proteomic risk prediction across biobanks reveals dependence on phenotype definitions
Advances in high-throughput proteomics technologies have enabled the assessment of dynamic health states across biobank-scale cohorts. Disease prediction models built on these data have higher accurac...
www.medrxiv.org
October 21, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Also, incident proteomic disease prediction is accurate (often outperforming existing clinical and CBC models) and generalizable across multiple biobanks, with simpler models performing as well or better than AI/deep learning. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
How does disease progress over time, and is that progression genetic? At #ASHG26, CGM’s Tony Chen (Daly & Neale labs) shared findings from 14 global biobanks showing disease progression is heritable, with new leads for therapeutic targets. 🧬
October 21, 2026 at 4:37 PM
How does disease progress over time, and is that progression genetic? At #ASHG26, CGM’s Tony Chen (Daly & Neale labs) shared findings from 14 global biobanks showing disease progression is heritable, with new leads for therapeutic targets. 🧬
There’s a lot we can tell from DNA - especially if we’re using long, intact DNA fragments. But handling those takes special care - as young researchers from the SANBI Plant DNA Biobank discovered at the @diplomics.bsky.social / ACGT High Molecular Weight DNA Jamboree.
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Biobanking News | Getting The Good Genes: Plant DNA Biobankers At The High Molecular Weight DNA Jamboree - Biodiversity Biobanks SA
Biobanking News | Getting The Good Genes: Plant DNA Biobankers At The High Molecular Weight DNA Jamboree Working with DNA ...
bbsa.org.za
October 21, 2026 at 11:17 AM
There’s a lot we can tell from DNA - especially if we’re using long, intact DNA fragments. But handling those takes special care - as young researchers from the SANBI Plant DNA Biobank discovered at the @diplomics.bsky.social / ACGT High Molecular Weight DNA Jamboree.
bbsa.org.za/2026/09/17/b...
bbsa.org.za/2026/09/17/b...
Molecular control of bacterial immunity
->Nature | More on "Bacterial defense against phage infections" at BigEarthData.ai
->Nature | More on "Bacterial defense against phage infections" at BigEarthData.ai
Molecular control of bacterial immunity
Doron, S. et al. Systematic discovery of anti-phage defense systems in the microbial pan-genome. Science 359, eaar4120 (2018). Vassallo, C. N., Doering, C. R., Littlehale, M. L., Teodoro, G. I. C. & Laub, M. T. A functional selection reveals previously undetected anti-phage defence systems in the E. coli pangenome. Nat. Microbiol. 7, 1568–1579 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01219-4 (2022). Darracq, B. et al. Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems. Science 388, eads0768 (2025). Kieffer, N. et al. Mobile integrons encode phage defense systems. Science 388, eads0915 (2025). Getz, L. J., Fairburn, S. R., Vivian Liu, Y., Qian, A. L. & Maxwell, K. L. Integrons are anti-phage defence libraries in Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Nat. Microbiol. 10, 724–733 (2025). Gao, L. et al. Diverse enzymatic activities mediate antiviral immunity in prokaryotes. Science 369, 1077–1084 (2020). Rousset, F. et al. Phages and their satellites encode hotspots of antiviral systems. Cell Host Microbe 30, 740–753.e5 (2022). Wein, T. & Sorek, R. Bacterial origins of human cell-autonomous innate immune mechanisms. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 22, 629–638 (2022). Ledvina, H. E. & Whiteley, A. T. Conservation and similarity of bacterial and eukaryotic innate immunity. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 22, 420–434 (2024). Yoon, P. H. et al. Structure-guided discovery of...
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October 21, 2026 at 6:41 PM
PhD Studentship: Investigating molecular mechanisms underlying resilience to dementia and age-related disorders: A multi-omic analysis of large human biobanks
Devon, Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs
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Devon, Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs
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October 19, 2026 at 7:28 AM
PhD Studentship: Investigating molecular mechanisms underlying resilience to dementia and age-related disorders: A multi-omic analysis of large human biobanks
Devon, Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Devon, Exeter, United Kingdom #Epijobs
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... 🧪 Nice study algorithm provide insight on the potential of metabolomics-informed precision medicine strategies for inflammatory diseases.
Use of an AI metabolomics score to predict cardiovascular risk among patients with Psoriasis in the MGB and UK Biobanks
Systemic inflammation in psoriasis accelerates atherosclerosis and confers excess cardiovascular risk that is not fully captured by traditional clinic…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 18, 2026 at 2:52 PM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... 🧪 Nice study algorithm provide insight on the potential of metabolomics-informed precision medicine strategies for inflammatory diseases.
Happy #WorldFoodDaY! Ask most people where their dinner comes from and they'll say the shop, market or farm down the road. Ask where the next dinner comes from, in twenty years, on a hotter and drier planet - and that's where #biodiversity #biobanks enter the picture...
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October 16, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Happy #WorldFoodDaY! Ask most people where their dinner comes from and they'll say the shop, market or farm down the road. Ask where the next dinner comes from, in twenty years, on a hotter and drier planet - and that's where #biodiversity #biobanks enter the picture...
bbsa.org.za/2026/10/16/s...
bbsa.org.za/2026/10/16/s...
Using large-scale biobanks and computational genomics, Christa works to identify and characterize monogenic diseases in historically underrepresented populations—helping ensure that genomic discoveries can benefit everyone.
October 15, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Using large-scale biobanks and computational genomics, Christa works to identify and characterize monogenic diseases in historically underrepresented populations—helping ensure that genomic discoveries can benefit everyone.
These talks and posters illustrate how @prsmethods.bsky.social is working to improve genetic risk prediction across populations by building new computational tools, pooling data across biobanks, and incorporating factors like genetic ancestry, age, and social context 🧬🌎🌍🌏
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October 14, 2026 at 10:42 PM
These talks and posters illustrate how @prsmethods.bsky.social is working to improve genetic risk prediction across populations by building new computational tools, pooling data across biobanks, and incorporating factors like genetic ancestry, age, and social context 🧬🌎🌍🌏
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bbmri.cz managed the Czech livestream of a roundtable addressing how prevention, modern diagnostics, biobanks and research can improve lives: buff.ly/JpLzrjj
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October 13, 2026 at 7:39 AM
bbmri.cz managed the Czech livestream of a roundtable addressing how prevention, modern diagnostics, biobanks and research can improve lives: buff.ly/JpLzrjj
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