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).
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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.
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.
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