Tissue Banks Trigger Worry About Ownership Issues
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Tissue banks trigger worry about ownership issues.
Tissues have what a new generation of researchers need to fi ght cancer: molecular clues to disease origins and a wealth of potential targets for new drugs. But some National Cancer Institute leaders consider a potential shortage of human tissues the single greatest barrier to cancer research. Now, with high-throughput, robotic systems analyzing tissue samples by the thousands, shortages have b...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1460-2105,0027-8874
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj380