News

  • Jun 2021

    Supporting Science: A Q&A with Coriell’s Customer Service Team Leader

    Coriell’s online catalog allows scientists to browse its enormous, diverse collection of biological samples and products of many kinds. But when an order is placed, it receives a human touch from the time the order button is pressed to the time a sample is packed up and out of the door. Many at Coriell are involved, but perhaps no team is more important to the process than Coriell’s Customer Service Department.

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  • Jun 2021

    Coriell Institute Science Fair Winner Takes Top Prize in International Competition

    Maya Butani, a rising senior at Moorestown High School in Moorestown, New Jersey, took home the First Award in Biochemistry for her project titled “Stem Cell Behavior and Osteogenic Differentiation on Plant-Derived Scaffolds” in which she explored the utility of plant materials in manufacturing tissue for use in humans.

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  • May 2021

    Custom Services at Coriell

    Interested in a product from Coriell, but you don’t see it in our online catalog? Through the NIGMS, NIA and NHGRI repositories, Coriell offers a range of on-demand products and custom services, including custom lots of bulk DNA and cell pellets.

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  • May 2021

    From Coriell to the World: A Q&A With Coriell’s Shipping Expert

    For decades, Coriell has supplied the world’s scientists with the biosamples necessary for their research. We built the collections under our roof in collaboration with federal and private partners and have earned a reputation for offering biosamples of only the highest quality. But all the scientific know-how in the world doesn’t help if we can’t get a sample or product safely out our doors and to your lab. For that, we have our skilled Biobanking Logistics team, and our shipping expert, Tom Schneider.

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  • May 2021

    The Best News Yet on Polio!

    While we at the Coriell Institute keep our eyes to the horizon of science and medicine, it’s often helpful to look to our past as inspiration for the future. Science is a team sport and small contributions may seem incidental at the time, but all are part of the story when breakthroughs are made and diseases are conquered.

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  • Mar 2021

    Applications Now Open: Bioinformatics Research Experience for Students

    This year marks the second year of the Bioinformatics Research Experience (BRE), a paid training program for undergraduate students interested in learning this new, rapidly evolving field at the intersection of biology and data. The BRE is held virtually and gives students the opportunity to get started in this growing science and receive instruction from Coriell’s bioinformatics staff.

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  • Mar 2021

    National Cancer Institute Awards Coriell Scientist with Grant to Study AML Drug Resistance

    The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a Coriell Institute for Medical Research scientist a $2 million five-year grant to study ways to reduce drug resistance in patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a form of leukemia which arises from bone marrow tissue.

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  • Mar 2021

    How the Coriell Marketplace Can Boost Your Biobank

    Through the Coriell Marketplace, we are offering our scientific expertise and our customized platform to other biobanks and organizations interested in making biospecimens more accessible to the research community and allowing Coriell to manage all the underlying operations and challenges inherent in biobanking.

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  • Nov 2020

    Looking Back at the First Year of CPMC’s Research Phase

    A year after Coriell moved its flagship personalized medicine research study, the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative (or CPMC), from a phase focused on recruitment and participant risk reporting to one focused on analysis and research, CPMC researchers are still making new, interesting discoveries and have published new findings in scientific journals.

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  • Oct 2020

    Coriell Institute for Medical Research - 2020 Annual Report

    We’re pleased to report that despite the many challenges imposed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the past fiscal year has been one of success and renewal for the Coriell Institute.

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