by editor | Sep 16, 2015 | Clinicians, Participants, Researchers
Leading US health authority releases aspirin recommendations to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer in middle-aged The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) yesterday proposed that aspirin should be taken by people to prevent cardiovascular disease...
by editor | Jul 22, 2015 | Participants
Representatives from Museum Victoria recently visited the new Monash University DEPM Biorepository to learn about the inner workings of the state-of-the-art long term storage facility. Museum Victoria is building their own cryostorage facility to preserve samples of...
by editor | Jun 18, 2015 | Participants
We are fortunate to have a terrific Biobank research team with a yen for travel and good food. Led by Tom Gilbert, the Biobank team of ten has clocked up hundreds of hours flying or driving around south-eastern Australia, to collect and process blood and urine samples...
by editor | May 30, 2015 | Clinicians, Participants, Researchers
Two important events happened in the ASPREE Healthy Ageing Biobank this week. Opening of a new storage facility for biospecimens A new, dedicated long-term cold storage facility to preserve the valuable samples in the ASPREE Healthy Ageing Biobank opened this month....
by editor | May 2, 2015 | Participants
The President of Golden Days FM, Melbourne’s Senior Broadcast radio, recently spoke to Professor Andrew Tonkin, a senior investigator to the ASPREE trial, on the progress of the study. Prof Tonkin (pictured left) is Head of the Cardiovascular Research Unit at...
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