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About the IARC Biobank
IARC Biobank Infrastructure
| In the IBB, storage facilities include liquid nitrogen (LN2) tanks and freezers (-80°C, -40°C, -20°C) and fridges. |
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| LN2 tanks (storage conditions -196°C) containing Blood products kept in plastic straws from the EPIC study and from a cohort study in Iran. | |
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| Plastics straws contain 500µl of biological material. Fourteen straws are stored in one visotube identified by its colour and there are 12 visotubes in one goblet. | |
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| Freezers contain several hundreds of thousands of samples such as tumour tissues, blood products, exfoliated cells, DNA, and urine. | |
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| There is also a dedicated room for storage at room temperature for paraffin blocks, slides, hair and nail samples and dried blood spots. | |