This socio-economic study is based on the widely held view that there is an inadequate
supply of human biological samples that is hampering biomedical research development …

Biobanks can have a pivotal role in elucidating disease etiology, translation, and advancing
public health. However, meeting these challenges hinges on a critical shift in the way …

Background Biobanks provide an important foundation for genomic and personalised
medicine. In order to enhance their scientific power and scope, they are increasingly …

The development of genomics has dramatically expanded the scope of genetic research,
and collections of genetic biosamples have proliferated in countries with active genomics …

The review explores the field of biobanking as it has evolved from a simple collection of
frozen specimens to the virtual biobank. Biorepository and biospecimen science has …

The rise of bioinformatics is a direct response to the political difficulties faced by genomics in
its quest to be a new biomedical innovation, and the value of bioinformatics lies in its role as …

Tight economic realities in clinical and research op-erations have spurred the need to re-
examine financial models that support the infrastructure of biobanking. Finding ways to …

As the healthcare industry moves from a twentieth century approach of providing treatments
of last resort to a future of individualized medicine, biobanks will play a pivotal role in this …

The question of informed consent has been central to public and scholarly debates on
research biobanking, as well as to regulatory efforts. We discuss why this concept has …

Biobanks are an extraordinary tool for research and scientific progress. Since their origin,
the debate on the main technical, regulatory and ethical aspects has not stopped. The future …