Global Biobanking Equipment Market Continues to Grow as Brooks Life Sciences launches BioStore IIIv, an automated next-generation alternative to manual -80°C mechanical freezers
Biobanking is a type of biorepository that stores biological samples for research purposes. Over the years biobanks have become a key resource in medical research and have supported contemporary research activities such as personalized medicine and genomics. Generally, biobanks can offer access to researchers to data representing a vast pool of population, which also has sparked questions on research ethics and privacy. Mostly, biobanks have been used in human genetics research. Growing prevalence of chronic diseases is expected to drive growth of the global biobanking equipment market. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the U.S., in 2020, around 108 million people have hypertension, which is defined as systolic blood pressure. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2016, around 251 million cases of COPD were diagnosed across the globe, while around 3.17 million deaths were caused due to COPD in 2015. According to the Cystic Fibr...