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It can be confusing for a laboratory to choose between manual defrost and auto-defrost freezers. A commonly held belief is that manual defrost freezers are the best choice for storing certain sensitive biological materials such as enzymes. Traditional auto-defrost freezers...

Health officials have reported two cases of Zika virus transmitted by blood transfusions. Both of these cases were reported in Campinas, a city of around one million people located northwest of São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil.

Each blood component has specific storage requirements. Platelet products are unique because they must be stored at room temperature (20ºC to 24ºC) with continuous, gentle agitation, whereas other blood products are stored at colder temperatures. An unfortunate consequence of...

Ultra-Low freezers are critical to safeguarding samples from long-term studies, and a single unit can contain years or even decades of research. For this reason, healthcare facilities and research centers take great care of these irreplaceable samples.

Researchers and clinicians rely on their cold-storage equipment to maintain the integrity and quality of precious patient samples and other biological products. The failure of a cold-storage unit can compromise samples, which disrupts critical research and has a significant...

Totaling more than 1,300 in the United States, Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) are limited in size and generally have a short length of average patient stay. These hospitals provide care forcommon conditions and focus on outpatient care, while referring other conditions to...

This month Helmer Scientific is participating in the 2015 AABB Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. AABB’s mission is to advance the practice and standards of transfusion medicine and cellular therapies to optimize patient and donor care and safety. At this meeting, members...