Remnant and Residual Specimens for Research?

[Napoleon1801]

Anyone partnering with any research companies to discard your old remnant specimens (blood, blocks, etc)? We're throwing out a number of old blocks since we're hitting storage capacity issues at the 13 year mark. I'm wondering if there's a better option than simply the trash?

Using the Google, there seems to be a number of companies looking for remnants. Would anyone recommend or steer clear of any of these?

]https://www.ispecimen.com/company/ispecimen-marketplace/[/URL]
]PrecisionMed, Inc. - A Forward Looking Biobank
]https://usbiolab.com/services[/URL]
"]https://www.bocabio.com/inventorysnapshot[/URL]
]https://www.swog.org/clinical-trial...specimen-processing-and-submission-procedures[/URL]
]https://www.dls.com/biospecimens/cancer/ffpe-tissue/[/URL]
"]https://vitrovivo.com/product-category/ffpe-tissue-sections/[/URL]
"]https://bioduro.com/tumor-biobank/[/URL]

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[Euchromatin]

We looked into iSpecimen a couple years ago. It seemed legitimate and most of our group thought it sounded like a win-win, but we didn't end up going through with it. Even though it technically isn't legally required (at least it wasn't at that time), a couple of my colleagues were very concerned about how it might be perceived by the public if word got out and insisted that they would only support the process if we could get ALL of our clients to modify all their patient consent forms to specify that tissue collected may be used for research (most did not at that time). Since this was not a priority for any of our larger client hospitals and we didn't really have any leverage to encourage them to do so, our requests to update consent forms went nowhere and the whole plan died.