System for blood preservation and biobanking

Spark-Tube Biobanking System (STBS) was invented to make current complex methods of blood preservation and biobanking more efficient, robust and simplified. The need for such system unfolded when conducting research projects aimed at identification and validation of disease biomarkers in blood. There were two major limitations in the state-of-the-art blood-based biomarker diagnostics: lack of technical solution allowing fully automated, high-throughput blood preservation combined with laborious and very expensive manual procedures.