Overview

Biomatrica offers technologies that serve the biobanking community. The combination of Biomatrica's innovative room temperature-based formulations for shipping, archiving and preservation of DNA (purified gDNA, blood, buffy coat, tissues and cells) and RNA (tRNA, mRNA, miRNA, siRNA), and industry-leading automation and bio-storage companies, offers a cost-effective, scalable and highly flexible solution for biobanking.

Biomatrica solutions for the biobanking community

Biomatrica offers innovative technologies for biospecimen storage with the flexibility and scalability that meets the growing needs of biorepositories. Our comprehensive solution includes biostore construction & installation (with partners), optimized sample management workflow, storage format (tubes or plates) options, easy sample retrieval, and scientifically-validated technologies for storing and shipping a variety of biospecimens (blood, serum, buffy coat, tissues, cells, clones, etc) at ambient room temperature. Learn more.

Recent Scientific Validation Studies

Elimination of cold chain logistics for sample collection in a large-scale multi-national GWAS study - L. Nordstrom, et. al., Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
- Poster presentation at the 2011 Conference on Biology of Genomes, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, New York, NY.
- Highlights of some of the findings in the study are shown in the Table below.
Tables showing projected 4-year savings ($) in shipping of blood and tissue samples between participating organizations (Asia and USA) in a multi-national East Asian Glioma GWAS study (left), and DNA yield recovered after storage at RT in DNAstable Blood or in cold storage at -4C and -80C (right).
Gene expression analysis and genomic DNA stabilization of whole blood samples at ambient temperatures - S. Wilkinson, et. al., Biomatrica Inc., San Diego, CA, USA.
- Poster presentation at the 2011 CHI Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference, San Francisco, CA, Feb 18.
- Highlights of the result for RNA and DNA stabilization in blood are shown below:

RT-qPCR analysis of gene expression in whole blood samples stored for 3 days in (a) RNAgard Blood (in development), (b) PAXgene RNA Blood, and (c) -80C.

A summary of scientific studies evaluating ambient stabilization of RNA in RNAstable is available for download.
Additional validation studies on ambient temperature preservation of nucleic acids and assays can be downloaded.

Biomatrica Products for the Biobanking market

Biomatrica has developed a range of products for room temperature stabilization and shipping of tissues, cells, biopsy materials, blood or bacterial strains from collection site to the laboratory for analysis. Some of these products are listed within links below, including some pending release(s):

	DNAgard Tissue DNAgard Blood Tubes DNAgard Saliva Kit (New) RNAgard Blood System (New) CloneStab
	DNAstable / DNAstable LD DNAstable Plus DNAstable Blood RNAstable / RNAstable LD CloneStable RNAConcentrator
	SampleWare

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Contact

For more information about Biomatrica products please contact us at contact@biomatrica.com or call 1-858-550-0308.