How Biobanks Can Support Personalized Medicine
Biobanks should be an integral part of a comprehensive research platform, not exclusively viewed as a service provider or freezer farm managed with excel sheets. For biobanks to be be viewed as a contributing partner and one that can...
How Do People In Nashville React To The Biobank Consent Process?
Gathering informed consent from participants is a pillar of biobanking. As ambitious biobanking projects such as All of US and UK biobank proliferate and become ever larger, the benefits and the potential risks for participants also grow. It is...
Observations On Recruitment For The Mayo Clinic Biobank
In order to draw generalizable conclusions, it is important
that cohort studies represent the population of interest faithfully. Against
this backdrop it has been noted that not all individuals are equally willing to
participate in biobank related studies. Factors associated with willingness...
New Trends in Biobanking Based on Main International Events in 2019
What were the most attractive biobanking ideas in 2019?
ISBER (International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories) and ESBB (European, Middle Easter and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking) are the two biggest world leaders in the biobanking area. Every...
Dynamic Consent In Biobanking Using Dwarna – A Blockchain Solution
A research team with senior author Jean-Paul Ebejer from the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking at the University of Malta has created a blockchain solution for dynamic consent in biobanking called Dwarna. They published their solution in...
Finding The Right Balance – Return of Results to Biobank Participants
In the course of research based on a biobank population occasionally a condition may be revealed in a particular individual, which was not known before the study, and for which the study was not explicitly designed. This is known...
The Role of Patients in Medical Research is Evolving, Thanks to Patient-Facing Health IT
Sponsored content brought to you by In the fields of biobanking and clinical research, the active role of the patient as more than a donor or study subject is becoming more prevalent as biobanks and researchers increasingly recognize the added...
Biospecimen Quality in Clinical Research
Abstract
Biospecimens form an integral part of many clinical research studies. The production of valid clinical data sets depends largely upon the quality of biospecimens utilized in the study. Annotations of biospecimens help unveil information related to disease prognosis, diagnosis,...
Four-Part Mendelspod Podcast Series On Human Biospecimen Quality And Regulations
Scientist.com has announced the completion of a four-part podcast series on human biological samples and biobanking. The four guests offered thoughtful insights and ideas from an academic, pharmaceutical and small business perspective. The episodes were hosted by, and are...
Biobanking Science: Patient Attitudes to Precision Medicine Studies
Governments and research organizations around the world are conducting large long-term precision medicine projects to understand how genetic and lifestyle factors cause disease. Longitudinal projects such as the UK Biobank and the Precision Medicine Initiative in the US collect...
