Biobanking for epidemiology.

Association of acculturation, nativity, and years living in the United States with biobanking among individuals of Mexican descent.

BACKGROUND Biobanking is the collection of human biospecimens (tissues, blood, and body fluids) and their associated clinical and outcome data. Hispanics are less likely to provide biologic specimens for biobanking. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of acculturation, nativity status, and years living in the United States with participation in biobanking among individu...

The Significance of Biobanking in the Sustainability of Biomedical Research: A Review

Biobank, defined as a functional unit for facilitating and improving research by storing biospecimen and their accompanying data, is a key resource for advancement in life science. The history of biobanking goes back to the time of archiving pathology samples. Nowadays, biobanks have considerably improved and are classified into two categories: diseased-oriented and population-based biobanks. U...

biobanking: a survey among Italian twin participants to a genetic epidemiological study

Developing the science and methods of community engagement for genomic research and biobanking in Africa

Historically, community engagement (CE) in research has been implemented in the fields of public health, education and agricultural development. In recent years, international discussions on the ethical and practical goals of CE have been extended to human genomic research and biobanking, particularly in the African context. While there is some consensus on the goals and value of CE generally, ...

Biobanking for Public Health

Genome-based biobanking requires a new governance model which integrates the personal values of the people concerned, the medical knowledge necessary to define a “genomic indication” as well as the procedural law which enables those professions and families involved to make an ethically and legally acceptable prioritisation of dissenting interests in genomic services and data. Thus, almost all ...