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Biodiversity Biobanks: An Insurance Policy For The Future Of Nature
Biodiversity Biobanks: An Insurance Policy For The Future Of Nature In a world where climate change, habitat destruction, overexploitation and pollution are leading to increasing loss of biodiversity that is altering the capacity of the ...
Webinar Invite | What We Learned At The Global Genome Biodiversity Conference
Webinar Invite | What We Learned At The Global Genome Biodiversity Conference Some problems are too big to handle alone. Preserving and understanding biodiversity is one of those problems. That’s why the Biodiversity Biobanks South ...
Rekha Sathyan: What’s In Our Biodiversity Biobanks Anyway?
Rekha Sathyan: What's In Our Biodiversity Biobanks Anyway? Biobanks are essential to preserving South Africa’s vast biodiversity heritage. But to get the most out of them, we need to know what’s in them - and ...
UFS Yeast Culture Collection: Featuring Fantastic Yeast
UFS Yeast Culture Collection: Featuring Fantastic Yeast Contrary to what many of us may think, yeasts aren’t just found in breads and beers. These unicellular organisms are hundreds of millions of years old, found all ...
ARC National Small Grain Collection – Seeding A Secure Future
ARC National Small Grain Collection - Seeding A Secure Future Grains matter. They’re a food staple in almost every culture on Earth, responsible for almost half the calories we consume (directly and indirectly) for thousands ...
SANBI Biobank – Saving Species, Building Biodiversity
SANBI Wildlife Biobank – Saving Species, Building Biodiversity The wildlife biobank at the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) has been dedicated to the long-term collection, curation and archiving of biodiversity samples for more than ...
Meet The Member: Khathu Neshunzhi – Learning To Love The (Wild)Life
Meet The Member: Khathu Neshunzhi – Learning To Love The (Wild)Life When he was young, Khathutshelo Neshunzhi (just call him Khathu) was given two important bits of advice. First, don’t ever stop learning and growing ...
Watch | Biodiversity Biobanks Gap Analysis & Expansion Project
Watch | Biodiversity Biobanks Gap Analysis & Expansion Project South Africa is one of 17 megadiverse countries globally, with not only exceptional species richness, but also exceptional levels of uniqueness (endemism), as well as biome ...
SANBI Wild Plant Seedbank – A Time Capsule Of Plants Past
SANBI Wild Plant Seedbank – A Time Capsule Of Plants Past Plant species worldwide are under threat of becoming extinct as a result of habitat loss, invasive alien plants, over-collection and more - and South ...
Women of the BBSA: The Backbone of Biodiversity Biobanking
Women of the BBSA: The Backbone of Biodiversity Biobanking On 9 August 1956, four brave women - Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa, Sophie Williams and Lilian Ngoyi - led over 20 000 women of all races ...
Meet The Member: Gretha Snyman – The GOAT of Goat Biobanking
Meet The Member: Gretha Snyman - The GOAT of Goat Biobanking Gretha Snyman always knew she wanted to work with animals. Her guidance counselor told her she could breed them (as a farmer), kill them ...
Invite | Global Genome Biodiversity Network 2023 Conference – October 2023
Invite | Global Genome Biodiversity Network 2023 Conference - October 2023 The Global Genome Biodiversity Network 2023 conference expects to gather academic institutions and representatives of the private and public sectors from around the world, ...
Why Taxonomy Matters: A Rose, By Any Other Name
A Rose, By Any Other Name: Why Taxonomy Matters South Africa is known for its big game and other wildlife which attracts millions of tourists every year, boosting the economy and creating hundreds of thousands ...
Meet The Biobank: Grootfontein Biobank – Breeding Better Sheep (And Goats)
Meet The Biobank: Grootfontein Biobank – Breeding Better Sheep (And Goats) Most biobanks are staffed entirely by humans (for obvious reasons). But while the human team at Grootfontein Biobank for Sheep and Goats, does most ...
Information Session | Animal Disease Control Act – Section 20 Permits & Registration
Information Session | Animal Disease Control Act - Section 20 Permits & Registration South Africa is - as we all know - one of the world’s most biodiverse regions. The 1984 Animal Diseases Act helps ...
Shared Wealth & Environmental Health: How Biobanking Benefits South Africa
Shared Wealth & Environmental Health: How Biobanking Benefits South Africa It’s no secret that South Africa - like many other developing (and developed) nations - has its problems. Some of the big ones include poverty, ...
Meet The Member: Riana Jacobs Venter – Finding the Fun in Fungi
Meet The Member: Riana Jacobs Venter - Finding the Fun in Fungi Fungi aren’t quite as famous as plants or animals. But they’re every bit as important - and every bit as interesting. Just ask ...
Meet The Biobank: ARC National Collection of Fungi – Much More Than Mushrooms
Meet The Biobank: ARC National Collection of Fungi - More Than Mushrooms The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) has several biobanks that form part of the core biobank system of the Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa (BBSA), ...
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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….
