Abstract The Cooperative Human Tissue Network was created by the NCI in 1987 to support
a coordinated national effort to collect and distribute high quality, pathologist-validated …

Biobanks play an integral role in research and precision medicine by acquiring, processing,
storing, and distributing high-quality, clinically annotated biological material. Compliance …

Biobanks are foundational infrastructures that collect and provide standardized, high-quality,
and research-ready biological material and associated data. The advent of high-throughput …

Impactful biobanking is underpinned by quality assurance and standardization. Several
general biobank standards exist that can be associated with programs to provide different …

The promise of precision medicine will only be realized if the healthcare system adapts to
meet some key infrastructure needs. Among these needs are adequate biobanking …

The Bioresource center Ghent is the central hospital-integrated biobank of Ghent University
Hospital. Our mission is to facilitate translational biomedical research by collecting, storing …

Unintentional misconduct with samples and data can have a huge impact on the quality of
the research, on the reproducibility of the data and the trust in research in general and in …

Background: Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 1 (FSHD1) is a rare, hereditary,
and progressive muscular dystrophy characterized by weakness and wasting of the facial …

Clinical biospecimens that are collected, processed, characterized, stored, and distributed
by biobanks are urgently needed in cardiovascular research to facilitate diagnostic test …

Background: Biobanks have been supporting longitudinal prospective and retrospective
studies by providing standardized services for the acquisition, transport, processing, storage …