Banking on the Last Gift: Cornell's Signature Program of Postmortem Tissue Procurement.

ABSTRACT: High-quality, well-annotated, healthy tissue specimens are crucial to the success of basic and translational research, but often difficult to procure. Postmortem (PM) tissue collections provide the opportunity to collect these healthy biospecimens. PM procurement programs led by biobanks can further contribute by providing researchers with rare biospecimens collected with short postmortem intervals (PMI) in controlled environments. To support biomedical and translational research, the Cornell Veterinary Biobank (CVB), an ISO 20387 accredited core resource at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, has performed PM tissue collections from research and privately owned animals since 2013. The CVB PM collection team, consisting of a board-certified veterinary pathologist, a lice

SUBMITTER: Garrison SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9963475 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature