Biobanking services must improve rapidly to serve the needs of personalized medicine and
biospecimen research should be encouraged and supported at all levels from project …

Background Health research increasingly relies on organized collections of health data and
biological samples. There are many types of sample and data collections that are used for …

Background Numerous cancers have been linked to microorganisms. Given that colorectal
cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths and the colon is continuously exposed to a high …

The preservation of high-quality biospecimens and associated data for research purposes is
being performed in variety of academic, government, and industrial settings. Often these are …

Purpose: Despite important recent work, US public attitudes toward specific biobank consent
models are not well understood. Public opinion data can help shape efforts to develop …

Each year funding agencies and academic institutions spend millions of dollars and euros
on biobanking. All funding providers assume that after initial investments biobanks should …

This paper reports on the design, implementation, and results of a structured public
deliberation on human tissue biobanking conducted in Vancouver, Canada, in 2009. This …

Objective The aim of the study was to assess the evidence on miRNAs as biomarkers for the
diagnosis of endometriosis, as well as to provide insights into the challenges and strategies …

We begin with the premise that human tissue biobanking is associated with ethical
ambiguities and regulatory uncertainty, and that public engagement is at least one important …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of applying the
openEHR archetype approach to modelling the data in the database of an existing …