We have written at length about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) actions to promulgate regulations specifying the agency’s authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as ...

There has been increasing concern in the biomedical community about the use of biological specimens obtained during clinical research. Current Federal regulations set out criteria for the use of ...

If not for a pair of Smithsonian scientists, the fingernail-size frog from Brazil would have likely gone extinct without ever being described ...

Thousands of preserved bug specimens from around the world have made their way to UMass Lowell to help enhance the study of insects. Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich is the new ...

The Specimen Collection Kits from Tri-Tech Forensics Inc. assure crime laboratory personnel that they will receive undamaged, properly collected, and clearly identifiable specimens for analysis. They ...

Beneath the public galleries of the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) lies a unique library of life. This library doesn’t lend books or manuscripts; instead, it loans frozen biological ...

ATCC will serve as a centralized facility to support the storage and distribution of clinical samples and investigational products for BARDA. MANASSAS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ATCC, the world’s premier ...

More Unified and Large-Scale Software Systems to Track Biological Materials Today’s drug discovery and development is critically dependent on biospecimens. In development of a drug or new procedure, a ...

As science rapidly accelerates to address COVID-19 and other disease indications, we can’t lose sight of the importance of regulatory guidelines and requirements to ensure the safe, ethical treatment ...

Synthetic urine is engineered to replicate the essential physical and chemical properties of real urine rather than its ...