sample storage

Scientists profiled whole blood samples to find the ideal storage environment for downstream single cell analyses.

Choose the right temperature and storage product for each type of specimen.

A retrospective analysis of stored respiratory samples shows one patient could have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 weeks before the coronavirus was thought to have arrived in France, but a critic of the result questions whether the sample was contaminated.

In a first, scientists reanimate the fish using embedded gold nanoparticles that heat up cells by absorbing laser light.

How to store microbiome samples without losing or altering diversity

Keeping track of frozen biological samples

About 100 human brains belonging to a university collection thought lost have turned up at another campus. 

A search for long-forgotten pathogens at the US National Institutes of Health prompts the discovery of toxins and disease-causing agents.

Employees packing up an old storage unit run by the US Food and Drug Administration uncovered 16 forgotten vials of smallpox.

A guide to recent advances in ultra-low-temperature freezers and accessories that can help safeguard frozen samples