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Walking through a biobank

Video of the structure of a biobank facility

In this video, Gideon Nsubuga walks us through the Integrated Biorepository facility of H3Africa at Makerere University, Uganda. You will find out that biobanking is a lot more than a freezer farm.

Have you ever visited a biobank? Let us know in the comments what you expected to see in a biobank facility.

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