Cryo-Save sees favorable storage numbers in 2009
Published on: Friday 08, January 2010Category: News
For 2009, stem cell bank Cryo-Save Group has seen an increase in its sample storage. The company also said last year's fourth quarter saw 1,300 customers choose to store stem cells not just from their children's cord blood but from their umbilical cords as well.
BioLife Solutions signed a license and custom cGMP manufacturing agreement with Centocor R&D
Published on: Friday 18, December 2009Category: News
BioLifeSolutions signed a license and custom cGMP manufacturing agreement with Centocor R&D. The company will produce a variant of its serum-free and protien-free CryoStor biopreservation media product, which is formulated with a reduced concentration of 2% DMSO. BioLife specializes in the deveopment of patent
Research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine will participate in a four-year $2.8 millon grant to study the fragility of stored transfusion blood
Published on: Wednesday 09, December 2009Category: News
Research at Wake Forest University School of Medicine will participate in a four-year, $2.8 million grant to study the fragility of stored transfusion blood. The lead researchers will be at the medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. The study will focus on why the quality of stored transfusion blood degra
Researchers use radio nodes to minitor blood bags
Published on: Tuesday 08, December 2009Category: News
Researchers use radio nodes to monitor blood bags. German researchers have developed blood-bag monitors that use radio nodes to track blood temperature and interact with patients' nodes to warn about medical errors, such as if the wrong blood type is about to be used. Noninterference with hospital medical devices
Efforts to improve vaccine stabilization heat up
Published on: Friday 06, November 2009Category: News
Efforts to improve vaccine stabilization heat up. When researchers tracked the temperature of hepatitis B vaccine being delivered to frigid, remote reaches of western China in 2007, they found vaccine vials spending a median time of more than four days below their freezing point of minus 0.5 degrees Celsius.
Exploring the Potential of Cord Blood to Treat Diabetes, Neurological Diseases
Published on: Tuesday 27, October 2009Category: news
Immunotherapy has the potential of being used as a treatment for Type 1 diabetes; however, more data and additional studies are needed, according to Michael Haller, MD, assistant professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Florida. Haller presented his finding during the 2009 AABB Anual Meeting and T
ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering Biotransport Special Issue co-edited by BioCoR faculty is published
Published on: Wednesday 14, October 2009Category: news
ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering Biotransport Special Issue co-edited by BioCoR faculty is published. This special issue focuses on current and evolving areas of emphasis in biotransport, including important applications of biopreservation (molecular, cellular and tissue) and thermal therapies (high temperature
BioCoR faculty manuscript on confocal Raman microspectroscopy of frozen protein solutions
Published on: Thursday 02, July 2009Category: news
BioCoR faculty manuscript on confocal Raman microspectroscopy of frozen protein solutions was presented in J. Phys. Chem. B main page http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jpcbfk.
