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 …

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

Biobank research is potentially fruitful. It is argued that broad consent is acceptable for future
research on biological material because a) the benefit is high, b) it pays respect to people's …

Background The collection of samples from HIV-infected patients is the beginning of the
chain of translational research. To carry out quality research that could eventually end in a …

Good biobank governance implies—at a minimum—transparency and accountability and
the implementation of oversight mechanisms. While the biobanking community is in general …

Human tissue has been stored and used for research on a regular basis for more than 80
years. During the 1990s, collections of human tissue suddenly became framed as ethical …

Over the last two decades, increased interest of scientists to study bone marrow adiposity
(BMA) in relation to bone and adipose tissue physiology has expanded the number of …

There are an increasing number of population studies collecting data and samples to
illuminate gene-environment contributions to disease risk and health. The rising affordability …

Although a few jurisdictions around the world have legislated in response to the
phenomenon of biobanking, the far more common response has been policy led with …

Research into neuropsychiatric disorders, including alcohol-related problems, is limited in
part by the lack of appropriate animal models. However, the development of new …