TYAResearch:
Biobanking

What is Biobanking?

Biobanks serve as a warehouse of samples donated by cancer patients. The biobanks are responsible for collecting, processing, storing, and supplying specimens and data for research and clinical investigations.

Biobanking is when patients agree that we can take extra or unused tissue or bodily fluids during an operation, biopsy or blood test as samples for research.

These samples can be blood, urine, bone marrow, saliva, spinal fluid, and tissue for research purposes in order to further our understanding of health and disease.

They are important in cancer research and present us with the opportunities to investigate what causes certain cancers and how they progress, build up resistances, and respond to treatment.

In this section we have produced an animation to simply explain things, while Dan quizzed Helen about all things biobank!

UK Biocentre Sample Processing
UK Biocentre LN2
UK Biocentre Automated Storage

TYAResearch:
Biobanking

What is Biobanking?

Biobanks serve as a warehouse of samples donated by cancer patients. The biobanks are responsible for collecting, processing, storing, and supplying specimens and data for research and clinical investigations.

Biobanking is when patients agree that we can take extra or unused tissue or bodily fluids during an operation, biopsy or blood test as samples for research.

These samples can be blood, urine, bone marrow, saliva, spinal fluid, and tissue for research purposes in order to further our understanding of health and disease.

They are important in cancer research and present us with the opportunities to investigate what causes certain cancers and how they progress, build up resistances, and respond to treatment.

In this section we have produced an animation to simply explain things, while Dan quizzed Helen about all things biobank!

Q&A Video Biobanking

Q&A Video
Biobanking

Q&A Biobanking

The primary aim of this project is to create an age-appropriate resource which helps to inform TYAs about Clinical Trials, Biobanking and Genomics.

Clinical research is the study of health and illness in people. There are two main types of clinical research: observational studies and clinical trials.

Cancer is a disease of the genome. It occurs when changes in a person’s DNA results in cells growing and dividing uncontrollably.

Biobanking is when patients agree that we can take extra or unused tissue or bodily fluids during an operation, biopsy or blood test as samples for research.

The primary aim of this project is to create an age-appropriate resource which helps to inform TYAs about Clinical Trials, Biobanking and Genomics.

Clinical research is the study of health and illness in people. There are two main types of clinical research: observational studies and clinical trials.

Cancer is a disease of the genome. It occurs when changes in a person’s DNA results in cells growing and dividing uncontrollably.

Biobanking is when patients agree that we can take extra or unused tissue or bodily fluids during an operation, biopsy or blood test as samples for research.