Blogs about Sample Management

SLAS San Diego 2023 has come and gone, and SPT Labtech were thrilled to be exhibiting at this premier event for life sciences and laboratory automation. This year's conference was bigger and better than ever, bringing together leading experts,...

Budget season for lab managers is a tricky time when critical spending decisions need to be taken on competing investment priorities. Staffing costs and the benefits of new laboratory equipment are often weighed up and set against each other. Should...

Avoiding sample degradation is essential to ensure the integrity of the research efforts that biobanks support. A constant freezer temperature is a crucial factor in ensuring sample quality since a warm storage environment, even for a short period,...

Biobanks have become an essential cornerstone of medical research - enabling drug discovery and development, supporting biomarker research and deepening our understanding of disease mechanisms. As we advance towards an era of personalized medicine,...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine addresses concerns about reproducibility and replicability in scientific research. Sitting near the top of the “food chain”, it is imperative that sample management...

Biobank research is essential for advancing our knowledge of the genetic make-up of diseases and supports a future of more powerful, personalized medicine.  However, biobank research faces many challenges, including weak process links that threaten...

A recent edition of Nature discusses a repository at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Germany of pig samples from a genetically engineered pig model of diabetes (Abbott, A. (2015) Nature 519: 397-8). Samples from Boar 1339 were divided...