New investigators outside the major stem-cell hubs might be able to get a small grant from a private foundation or a state government, but if the work falls outside the NIH-approved guidelines, she won't be able to use existing freezers, incubators, sequencers, or other equipment funded either wholly or in part by government research grants.
To help vendors design better freezers in the future, the CEEL is collecting energy-use data on existing –80°C freezers.
They are busily opening new stores, outfitting existing stores with refrigerators and freezers, and sprucing up their aisles with better lighting, fresh paint and new signs.
To focus the discussion, we consider a "freezer study" workflow, where existing specimens undergo additional analysis, but no new specimens or clinical data are collected.
The Polar50 is available not only for outsourced storage, but is designed to allow easy installation into any existing stability suite, eliminating the need for multiple upright freezers and offering significant savings in power usage, floor space, and costs.
Bleicher has designed a commercial program called "Freezer," which allows users to build new tablebases from existing Nalimov tablebases with a priori information.
Note that this workflow addresses the "freezer study" scenario, where the ancillary study's additional measurements come from analysis of existing specimens, not collection of new specimens or clinical data.
