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Meet the Biobank: The Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics
Meet the Biobank: The Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics - Dynamite Comes In Small Packages Fun fact: There are more microbes in a few grams of soil than there are people on the entire ...
Save The Date: GGBN & ISBER Joint Biobanking Conference 2025
Save the Date - Biobanking’s Biggest Conference! We’re thrilled to be a part of the GGBN 2025 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa —a joint event with ISBER and the MBirSA! With this year’s conference ...
Women Of Biobanking: Changing Faces, Changing Futures
Women Of Biobanking: Changing Faces, Changing Futures When it comes to solving our biggest challenges, biobanks matter. They can help study, preserve and protect our biodiversity - and also help us learn to manage diseases ...
What are biodiversity biobanks?
Biodiversity biobanks are repositories of biologically relevant resources, including reproductive tissues such as seeds, eggs and sperm, other tissues including blood, DNA extracts, microbial cultures (active and dormant), and environmental samples containing biological communities….
