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Biobank for Translational Medicine: Standard Operating Procedures for Optimal Sample Management
Published on: November 30, 2022
The foundation of personalized medicine is the establishment of biobanks and their standardization
Liliana Policiuc1, Mihail Buse, Diana Gulei
1Research Center for Functional Genomics and Translational Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Abstract:
The present review outlines the current information available about biobanks including: summarizing the main ethical issues encountered when integrating patient samples in research projects; emphasizing the importance of biobanks as the basis for any personalized medicine therapies in cancer with a particular focus for oral cancer, through the use of biomarkers; and providing examples of biobanks that use anonymous sample collection and labelling methodologies to help alleviate the problems of privacy, informed consent, data security as well as public trust.
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