CONCLUSION Together, these commitments provide a framework for thinking about
underutilization as a professional ethical issue in biobanking. None alone captures the full …

The conduct of biomedical research involving the participation of human beings implicates a
variety of ethical concerns pertaining to such values as dignity, bodily integrity, autonomy …

The use of anonymized stored tissue is a routine practice in genetic research. Investigators
who utilize stored samples are neither required nor able to obtain informed consent before …

This paper discusses the potential harms involved in biobank research and how ethical
review, informed consent, withdrawals, and anonymization of samples should be handled in …

The National Institutes of Health and other federal health agencies are considering
establishing a national biobank to study the roles of genes and environment in human …

The article discusses the need to tailor consent forms for the genetic research involving
human biological materials. The consent forms researchers evaluated are characterized by …

The rapid expansion of information and knowledge of genetics has implications for the
question of whether, and under what circumstances, information discovered in the course of …

As genomic medicine advances and immense amounts of data are generated that may
potentially affect human health, there is increasing concern around which of these results …

Background. Today, new and powerful sequencing technology is being used in biomedical
research. In parallel, an intense ethical debate has arisen regarding the handling of the …

The genetic revolution is well underway, with genetic research and knowledge expanding at
an exponential rate. Much of the new genetics research is focused on population groups …