Journal of Tissue Science and Engineering

Proactive Biobanking to Improve Research and Health Care

Abstract

Sreeja Sarojini, Andre Goy, Andrew Pecora and K. Stephen Suh

Biobanking, the archiving of biological specimens from donors for use in research, has become an important resource for healthcare research, medical care, and drug discovery. The kinds of questions being addressed in contemporary medical research depend upon the availability of biological tissue samples along with associated clinical data including medical, genealogical, and lifestyle information.