...Fiona Mackenzie Objectives: To review the different interests and needs of industry and academic users of human biomaterials. Methods: A review of the current literature and interviews with involved parties. Questionnaires were e-mailed to assess current attitudes towards biobanking and opinions...

...Maimuna Mendy; Elodie Caboux; Bakary S. Sylla; Joakim Dillner; Joseph Chinquee; Christopher Wild; BCNet survey participants Objective: To collect information on biobanking facilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as a first step towards establishing an LMIC biobank and cohort building...

...Darren Shickle; Marcus Griffin; Karen El-Arifi Background: Many biobanks have struggled to deliver on the high expectations and claims made for them because of insufficient samples, inadequate infrastructure, cost of establishing and maintaining a large enough resource over the long term...

.... Biobank Pathology Regulations Human tissue Ethical review board Pathobiology 2007;74:259 263 DOI: 10.1159/000104454 A Case Study on the Proper Use of Human Tissues for Biomedical Research at an Academic Pathology Institution in Switzerland Stephan C. Schäfer Hans-Anton Lehr Institut Universitaire...

... control of old archival tissues, new techniques were established to check RNA quality and antigen stability. Since 2003, GATiB has changed from a population-based tissue bank to a disease-focused biobank comprising major cancers such as colon, breast, liver, as well as metabolic liver diseases and organs...

...’ functional model could be useful for other countries and/or international tumour bank activities. 14 11 2006 2 06 2007 24 8 2007 Biobank Biorepository Tumour bank Tumour bank network Translational research Pathobiology 2007;74:245 250 DOI: 10.1159/000104452 Tumour Banking...