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Biobanking is considered to be one of the ten ideas changing the world with an estimated value of $45 billion by 2025. Despite the challenges, as the climate for innovation in the biobanking industry continues to flourish around the world, it is certain that amazing discoveries will emerge from this large-scale method of preserving and accessing human samples; biobanking is no longer just a place for collecting and storing samples. This book will cover a wide variety of subjects from across the future biobanking spectrum including scientific strategies, personalized medicine, regenerative medicine and stem cell challenges, disease surveillance, population genetics and innovative methods of biobanking.

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Pertinent Issues in Cryopreservation of Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells: Protecting Biological Integrity

Feridoun Karimi-Busheri, Aghdass Rasouli-Nia, and Michael Weinfeld

Cryopreservation: Evolution of Molecular Based Strategies

John M. Baust, William Corwin, Kristi K. Snyder, Robert Van Buskirk, and John G. Baust

Fundamental Principles of Stem Cell Banking

Changbin Sun, Jianhui Yue, Na He,Yaqiong Liu, Xi Zhang, and Yong Zhang

Biobanking: An Important Resource for Precision Medicine in Glioblastoma

Si Yan Melanie Tan, Edwin Sandanaraj, Carol Tang, and Beng Ti Christopher Ang

Slow Cooling Cryopreservation Optimized to Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Takamichi Miyazaki and Hirofumi Suemori

Cryopreservation in Closed Bag Systems as an Alternative to Clean Rooms for Preparations of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells

Silvia Spoerl, Robert Peter, and Angela M Krackhardt

Cryopreserved or Fresh Mesenchymal Stromal Cells: Only a Matter of Taste or Key to Unleash the Full Clinical Potential of MSC Therapy?

Guido Moll, Sven Geißler, Rusan Catar, Lech Ignatowicz , Martin J. Hoogduijn, Dirk Strunk, Karen Bieback, and Olle Ringdén

Biobanking of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Future Strategy to Facilitate Clinical Applications

Kar Wey Yong, Jane Ru Choi, and Wan Kamarul Zaman Wan Safwani

Menstrual Blood-derived Stem Cells: In Vitro and In Vivo Characterization of Functional Effects

Maria Carolina Oliveira Rodrigues, Trenton Lippert, Hung Nguyen, Sussannah Kaelber, Paul R. Sanberg, and Cesar V. Borlongan

Cryopreservation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Directions

Marcela K. Preininger, Monalisa Singh, and Chunhui Xu

Cryopreserved Adipose Tissue-derived Stromal/Stem Cells: Potential for Applications in Clinic and Therapy.

Fabiana Zanata, Shahensha Shaik, Ram V. Devireddy, Xiying Wu, Lydia Masako Ferreira, and Jeffrey M. Gimble

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Feridoun Karimi-Busheri

Department of Oncology


University of Alberta


Edmonton, AB, Canada








Michael Weinfeld

Department of Oncology


University of Alberta


and Cross Cancer Institute


Edmonton, AB, Canada

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