{"id":925,"date":"2007-04-24T17:07:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T16:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/low-cost-biobanking\/"},"modified":"2007-04-24T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T16:48:12","slug":"low-cost-biobanking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/04\/low-cost-biobanking\/","title":{"rendered":"Low cost biobanking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all biobanks will need daily access to samples. Here comes a cost effect alternative &#8211; storage in permafrost regions. ZEIT magazine has an article about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/online\/2007\/17\/genbank\">Mine 3<\/a>&#8220;,  a former coal mine in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arctic\">Arctic<\/a>. Already the first 10,000 samples have been stored there at -3,5 degree Celsius. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6335899.stm\">BBC<\/a> and Wikipedia have also information about Svalbard Global Seed Vault<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSGSV will be built by hollowing out a cave in a sandstone mountain on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spitsbergen\">Spitsbergen<\/a> Island. The bank will have dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors, two airlocks, and walls of steel-reinforced concrete one metre thick. Seeds will be wrapped in aluminium foil to keep out moisture. There will be no full-time staff, but the vault&#8217;s relative inaccessibility make it easy to track human activity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/spits.png\" title='' data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img src='https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/spits.png' alt='spits.png' \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all biobanks will need daily access to samples. Here comes a cost effect alternative &#8211; storage in permafrost regions. ZEIT magazine has an article about &#8220;Mine 3&#8220;, a former coal mine in the Arctic. Already the first 10,000 samples have been stored there at -3,5 degree Celsius. BBC and Wikipedia have also information about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/04\/low-cost-biobanking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Low cost biobanking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[992,991,990,989],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-aluminium_foil","tag-coal_mine","tag-permafrost_regions","tag-spitsbergen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}