β Scribed by Pierre Hainaut, Jim Vaught, Kurt Zatloukal, Markus Pasterk (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This volume is the first comprehensive text on human biobanking, authored by scientists and regulatory officers who have led the field over the past 10 years. It covers biobanking issues and its importance in advancing the field of research in cancer, cardiovascular, metabolic, and other diseases. Biobanks of human specimens have become the cornerstone for research on human health that harnesses the power of βomicsβ technologies to identify biomarkers for disease susceptibility. Biobanks are an essential component of the development of personalized medicine, which relies on the molecular analysis of biospecimens that are truly representative of individuals and of diseases. Over the past decade, biobanking has been the focus of major investments and developments aimed at developing appropriate infrastructure, methods, networking practice and evidence-based pre-analytical procedures. This volume explores topics including specimen storage, protocol design, specimen collection, pre-analytical processing and preservation, long-term storage, retrieval and separation, and distribution to analytical laboratory platforms. These activities are extremely complex and are essential for biomedical and biotechnological developments and this text provides critical information about biobanking for the development of future forms of medicine.β
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Principles of Cryopreservation....Pages 1-21
Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Biobanking....Pages 23-49
Economics of Biobanking....Pages 51-63
Safety Issues in Biorepositories....Pages 65-83
Biobanks as Producers of Reference Materials....Pages 85-98
Population Biobanks and the Principle of Reciprocity....Pages 99-109
Biobank and Expertise Networks....Pages 111-135
Networking Biobanks Throughout Europe: The Development of BBMRI-ERIC....Pages 137-153
P3G: Towards an International Policy Platform for Population Genomics....Pages 155-167
Biobanks in Low Resource Contexts....Pages 169-198
Chinese Biobanking Initiatives....Pages 199-205
Biobanking in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 207-216
Cryobanking Biomaterials from Wild Animal Species to Conserve Genes and Biodiversity: Relevance to Human Biobanking and Biomedical Research....Pages 217-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-239
Laboratory Medicine
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