Aside from ethical considerations, the primary requirement for usage of human tissues in
basic or translational research is the thorough characterization of tissues. The second, but …

Human tissue biobanking encompasses a wide range of activities and study designs and is
critical for application of a wide range of new technologies (-“omics”) to the discovery of …

Banking of high-quality, appropriately consented human tissue is crucial for the
understanding of disease pathogenesis and translation of such knowledge into …

Human tissue biorepositories have an increasingly visible and important role within
industrial enterprises in supporting biomedical research, including the rapidly advancing …

Availability of high-quality human tissue samples and access to associated histopathological
and clinical data is essential for basic and translational biomedical research, especially in …

Background High-quality biospecimens of human origin with annotated clinical and
procedural data are an important tool for biomedical research, not only to map physiology …

Tissue specimens taken in pathology for diagnostic or therapeutic interventions have been
collected for decades, archived and used for local research projects. Meanwhile there is an …

Key words tissue banks• Biobanking• Biological tissue conservation• tissue
cryopreservation• information technology a biobank is essentially a collection of biomaterials …

Introduction 3. Biobanking begins with the patient 4. Tissue procurement at the time of
surgery 5. Integrative data technologies: Linking the information 6. Current obstacles for …

The Radboud Biobank offers disease-based biobanks a centralized facility to optimize the
use and distribution of biomaterial for scientific research. Notably, two population biobanks …