DIVERSE CAPABILITIES & EXPERTISE

The CBSR follows Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) in sample transport, sample processing, sample inventory, long-term sample integrity, and rapid retrieval of critical biomaterials, so investigators can focus on their research and avoid unnecessary investment in equipment, staffing and storage facilities.

Investigators who use our services can concentrate their limited human resources on research while we provide low cost, high quality processing, storage and retrieval. Our efficient sample retrieval strategies picks and ships samples to investigators quicker than they could pull them from freezers in their own labs. By partnering with CBSR, investigators more efficiently meet their research goals while enjoying the benefits of robust inventory management in a secure, state-of-the-art facility.

We handle a wide range of sample and specimen types, including:

• Blood (whole blood, serum & plasma)
• Body Fluids (including CSF, bile, urine and feces)
• Pathology specimens (liver, stomach, bowel, kidney, and vascular biopsies)
• Fixed tissue preparations (cytology/histology slide preparations)
• Tissue blocks (paraffin, embedded, frozen, and other preparations)
• Genomic and proteomic materials (DNA, RNA)

HIGH THROUGHPUT CAPABILITIES

The use of Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) tube racks and open-source barcode reading software facilitates both automated and manual high throughput assays.


EXTENSIVE TEMPERATURE CAPABILITIES

We offer extensive temperature ranges at one facility to accommodate your exact temperature requirements:

• Ambient (18° C to 25° C)
• Cold Room/ Refrigerated (+2 to 8° C)
• -20° C freezer
• Ultra-Low/ Ultra-Cold (-80° C to -95° C)
• Vapor Phase Nitrogen (-135° C to -196° C)

SHIPPERS

We use dry-nitrogen shippers to ship frozen samples with temperature logging.