Search Results for: Governing Biobanks

Biobanks are proliferating rapidly worldwide because they are powerful tools and organisational structures for undertaking medical research. By linking samples

Population genomics research drawing on genetic databases has expanded rapidly, with some of this information being combined in 'biobanks'. Managing this inform

Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine. Genomics challenges our values and has always been controversial a

In recent years, a number of large population-based biobanks – genetic databases that combine genetic information derived from blood samples with personal dat

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