Healthy Donor Samples: Access Biological Specimens from Verified Healthy Volunteers

Biological samples, or specimens, are widely used in R&D for drug development and diagnostics assay development. Although many options exist to source common specimens, specific requirements, such as matching samples, conditioning status, or clinical requirements like mutations or population types can make sample sourcing dramatically time-consuming. Additionally, samples from healthy donors can be difficult to find, as no medical indication justifies the collection of samples from healthy patients.

This is why Labtoo developed a tailor-made service to support Labs, Biotechs, Medtech, and Pharma companies in their procurement of samples.

Labtoo offers a wide range of healthy donor samples, including blood, plasma, serum, and tissue samples, collected under strict quality and ethical standards. 

Labtoo can be mandated in a fully customized mission to look for any type of human or non-human biospecimen, fresh tissues, Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE tissues), or frozen. Our network enables access to biospecimens from healthy individuals. We work with hospitals, biobanks, and CROs to look for the best samples according to specific needs, with all regulatory and legal requirements handled. We facilitate sample collections from normal healthy controls across Europe and other continents.

Healthy samples are typically collected through prospective collections. Therefore, our team of scientists will first look for options already in sample biobanks or collections and compatible with the requirements of the project. All healthy human biological samples are sourced under approved ethical protocols. Alternatively, a prospective clinical collection can also be put inplace when necessary. Healthy-like tissues, like tumor resection adjacent tissues, can also be collected, in differnet states (fresh, fixed or frozen).

 

Collection of healthy donor blood samples for research.

Available Healthy Donor Sample Types Include:

  • Tissues

    • Fresh tissues
    • Frozen tissues (OCT and FF)
    • FFPE tissues
    • Adjacent healthy tissues
  • Blood derivatives

    • Whole blood
    • PBMC
    • Plasma
    • Serum
    • Leukapheresis
  • Biofluids

    • Urine
    • Stool / Feces
    • Ascites Fluid
    • Saliva / Buccal swabs
    • Sputum
    • Synovial Fluid
    • Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Our service identifies sample sources able to prepare and transfer a sample collection for any given project. Just ask our team to discuss your project!

Type of Collections

  • Retrospective: we can look into existing biobank collections 
  • Prospective: we can set up clinical collection specific for a given project

Typical deliverables

  • Feasibility of availability of samples or of clinical collection
  • Regulatory aspects (transfer authorizations, export authorizations, ethics committee agreement)
  • Contracting
  • Samples shipment
  • Clinical data
  • Matching tissues or samples (like Plasma or serum) as specified in the request
  • Other services (i.e. Nucleic acid extraction)
  • Clinical patient information as required

 

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What are healthy donor samples?

Healthy donor samples are biological materials, such as blood, tissues, or cells, collected from individuals without known medical conditions. Researchers use them as control samples in biomedical studies. 

What makes an healthy donor "healthy"?

It depends on the projects and the disease that is studied. Sometimes, healthy adjacent tissues, like in the case of tumoral resections, can be considered as the best healthy equivalent to the diseased tissue. Other project can accept samples from donors with non-related diseases. As all projects are unique, Labtoo will look for the best options to your needs and to the complexity of the disease.

Why use healthy donor biospecimens in research?

They provide a critical baseline for comparison in clinical trials, biomarker discovery, and disease pathogenesis studies. By comparing healthy donor specimens with samples coming from patients, researchers can make direct comparaison between two states: healthy and diseased. A statistical ponderation with the biological variety of individuals through the analysis of multiple biospecimens is typically necessary to draw conclusions on results.

 

Our team will handle your healthy donor biological sample procurement from the beginning to the end

Perform a feasibility study by looking for existing samples already in collections & ready to be transferred


Set up a clinical biological collection and preparing contracts with sources


Assist the material transfer from the source to the lab, including treatments, QA or shipping, as needed

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