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In the fast-paced world of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, access to high-quality biospecimens is vital for research and development. Whether you're working on drug discovery, biomarker identification, or personalized medicine, the source and quality of your biospecimens can significantly impact the reliability and success of your projects. To ensure you're partnering with the right biospecimen provider, here are seven crucial questions to ask:

Let’s begin with a few questions. What are your goals and those of your organization? Is it to grow cells? Is it to find and acquire human biospecimens? Is it to inventory and store biological samples? These tasks are important, but they are not your mission or the value proposition of your organization. 

ABS’ Mission is to save and improve lives by making the discovery of drugs and diagnostics faster, easier, and more reliable. Our mission is to make your Mission more successful. As an extension of our mutual mission, we have founded the ABS BioAccelerator to speed up the success of growing life science companies. 

ABS typically works with most of the world’s major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. As a small business, we know how difficult growth can be. Far too many companies fail, especially in the early stages.  

Many years ago, ABS introduced the concept of an ABS Cell Store™. The basic idea behind this concept is that scientists who use cells in their work want the data from their experiments, but do not want to spend days and often weeks growing, preparing, QC’ing, and banking cells for their experiments. Nevertheless, researchers require high quality cells for their work.

The true value of working with another company is realized when an effective partnership is created. This is especially the case when working with a research services provider such as ABS where consultation, collaboration, and customization are essential. 

This post is about boxes. In this instance, I am not referring to anything as esoteric as the mental boxes, preconceptions, and patterns of belief that can limit us. I am referring to actual boxes, specifically the boxes that ABS uses to ship cells, tissues, and other biological preparations to our clients. This may seem a rather mundane topic, but it illustrates a crucial point.

Next month, ABS moves to our new headquarters at 2 Reads Ways in New Castle, DE. This two-story 48,000 sq. ft. office building is renovated with completely new laboratories and building systems. It enables us to expand operations to better serve our clients’ needs.

Services providers such as human biospecimen collection networks, cell culture scale up and banking labs, sample storage facilities, and analytical laboratories for flow cytometry, protein analysis, and histology play important roles in advancing biomedical research. If you are considering working with a service provider, there are five basic issues that are important to consider.

Below are 16 important questions to consider before choosing a cell culture services provider. The questions are followed by a brief description of why the question is important and ABS’ response to each question in blue.