The biobank handle the biological samples requests and its associated clinical data. The tasks realized are:

• Request reception.
• The proceeding to the biobank external committee's (Scientific and Ethic Committees).
• Consulting on the documentation required.
• Resolution communication to the applicant.
• Elaboration and sending of the biological material transfer agreements (MTA).
• Sample and its information associated preparation and transport to external centres.

• Sample reception
• Management of project collections, research lines collections and biobank collections (samples, documentation and data associated).
• Research lines collections register to the ISCIII electronic platform.
• Storage and traceability of biological human samples of several collections.
• Real-time monitoring of the refrigeration equipment. Customer service 24h for incidences, alarms, etc.
• Historical control temperature reports of the refrigeration equipment.

• Consulting services regarding the creation of new collections (samples and associated data).
• Coordinate sample collections in multicentre studies.
• Coding, labelling, transportation.
• Ethic and legal aspects of collection development.
• Support the research of samples in other biobanks.

Cryopreservation and sample processing service

• Experimental design advisory
• Coding and labelling
• Serum and plasma isolation.
• Peripheral Blood lymphocytes purification and cryopreservation
• Cryopreserved and paraffin-embedded tissue processing.
• Basic histological staining

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Laser Capture Microdissection

• Advisory services towards self-reliance in the use of ARCTURUS XT™
• Technical support in processing complex samples
• Operating under self-service

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Genomic Platform (MARGenomics)

• Experimental design advisory
• DNA and RNA purification in different samples (Blood, frozen or paraffin-embedded tissue...)
• DNA and RNA quality (Quantification and integrity)
• qPCR 
• Microarrays
• Next Generation Sequencing. 
• Data analysis