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

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

Research with human subjects 1 exemplifies the perennial conflict between the good of the
individual and the good of society. Policies and procedures that protect the rights and …

Eur J Clin Invest 2012; 42 (9): 1027–1036 Abstract While large numbers of proteomic
biomarkers have been described, they are generally not implemented in medical practice …

Background Research ethics guidelines are essential for conducting medical research.
Recently, numerous attempts have been made to establish national clinical research …

Biofuels policies and projects may lead to environmental, economic and social impacts. A
number of studies point out the need to deliver comprehensive sustainability assessments …

Background Biological sample and data transfer within and out of Africa is steeped in
controversy With the H3Africa project now aiming to establish biobanks in Africa, it is …

Combining datasets into larger and separate datasets is becoming increasingly common,
and personal identifiers are often removed in order to maintain participant anonymity. Views …

Biobanks provide a platform for innovative biomedical research and has improvised
translational and personalized medicine to a great extent. Time 2009 published 10 ideas …

Members of research ethics committees (RECs) face a number of ethical challenges when
reviewing genomic research. These include issues regarding the content and type of …