Background The aim of the present review is to discuss how the promising field of
biobanking can support health care research strategies. As the concept has evolved over …

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

Making routine clinical-care-data available for medical research requires adequate consent
to legitimize use and exchange. While, public interest in supporting medical research is …

Purpose Biomedical data governance strategies should ensure that data are collected,
stored, and used ethically and lawfully. However, research participants' preferences for how …

Background The promises of improved health care and health research through data-
intensive applications rely on a growing amount of health data. At the core of large-scale …

Biobanks are important infrastructures facilitating biomedical research. After a decade of
rolling out such infrastructures, a shift in attention to the sustainability of biobanks could be …

Irreproducibility of research results is one of the major contributing factors to the failure of
translating basic research results into tangible bedside progress. To address this, the …

Human biological materials and related data stored in biobanks are valuable resources for
biomedical research. Transparent, effective, and efficient governance structures and …

Background Biobank research faces many ethical challenges. Ethics research aims to
develop standards for governance to meet these challenges by elaborating overarching …

Abstract Forensic Science International: Genetics and Forensic Science International:
Reports communicate research on a variety of biological materials using genetics and …