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Human Blood Products

Accelerate your research with our extensive human blood inventory; whole blood, double-spun plasma, and immune cell isolates.

Discovery offers a wide range of human diseased blood specimens, collected from our expansive global clinical site network, and normal blood-derived products from the Discovery Donor Clinic.

Diseased Blood Specimens

Whole Blood

Whole blood from diseased patients is available from both inventory and prospective collections in a variety of volumes up to 40 ml.

Plasma / Serum

Plasma, double-spun plasma, and serum from diseased patients are available from both inventory and prospective collections in a variety of volumes up to 20 ml.

PBMCs

Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from diseased patients can be selected from inventory with cell count and viability data or prospectively collected based on custom collection criteria.

Normal Blood-Derived Products

MNCs and Isolated Primary Cells

A range of high-quality, viable human immune cell isolates are available from both inventory and prospective collections in a variety of volumes based on minimum cell counts.

Normal Donor Whole Blood

Whole blood from healthy normal donors is available prospectively in a variety of volumes up to 250 ml and with your required anticoagulant (CPD, CPDA1, EDTA, or other) 

Normal Plasma/Serum

Plasma, double-spun plasma, and serum from healthy normal donors are available from both inventory and prospective collections in a variety of volumes up to 250 ml.

Blood Related Matched Sets

Our Discovery Partners® network allows for large-scale, prospective collections of high-quality matched sample sets of human biospecimens.  Each matched sample set is provided with the base clinical data from the patient case and redacted pathology information.

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Blood Products FAQs

Our Standard collection tubes types for blood products per product are as follows:

  • PBMCs - Sodium Heparin Tube.
  • Plasma - K2EDTA.
  • Serum - Serum Separator.

Please inquire if you need blood samples collected in other tube types.

You can find our Serum Protocols by clicking here.

We also have the ability to follow our clients’ custom processing protocols and help them develop new processing protocols based on their needs.

Currently, our disease areas for human blood products and components include:
Oncology, Hematology, Respiratory and Autoimmune diseases. Normal controls with similar demographic data can also be obtained from Discovery’s healthy donor clinics.

Our blood collections are overnighted from the site to your door via Federal Express.

Typical local delivery times are between 8:00am and 10:30am.

You can find our Plasma Protocols by clicking here.

We also have the ability to follow our clients’ custom processing protocols and help them develop new processing protocols based on their needs.

When storing and shipping human plasma products, we recommend using -80°C / dry ice.

When storing and shipping human serum products, we recommend using -80/Dry Ice.

When storing and shipping PMBCs, we recommend using Ln2 / dry ice or Ln2.

You can find our PBMCs Protocols by clicking here.

We also have the ability to follow our clients’ custom processing protocols and help them develop new processing protocols based on their needs.

-80ºC storage is recommended for storing or shipping plasma products.

Ambient temperature is recommended for storing or shipping whole blood products.

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