Background The aim of the present review is to discuss how the promising field of
biobanking can support health care research strategies. As the concept has evolved over …

The term “biobanking” is often misapplied to any collection of human biological materials
(biospecimens) regardless of requirements related to ethical and legal issues or the …

Background Medical research to improve health care faces a major problem in the relatively
limited availability of adequately annotated and collected biospecimens. This limitation is …

Biobanks are an important compound of personalized medicine and strongly support the
scientific progress in stratification of population and biomarker discovery and validation due …

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 …

Translational cancer research is highly dependent of large series of cases including high
quality samples and their associated data. Comprehensive Cancer Centers should be …

Biobanks have during last two decades gained an important role in the whole process of
biomedical research and health care not only in Europe but also worldwide. Biobanks are …

Biobanks play an increasing role in contemporary research projects. These units meet all
requirements to regard them as a one of the most innovative and up-to-date in the field of …

Background and Aim: It is increasingly recognized that biomedical research has serious
reproducibility issues, which could be overcome at least in part by standardized processing …

The development of biomedical science requires the creation of biological material
collections that allow for the search and discovery of biomarkers for pathological conditions …