Seeking Closure: The End of a Biobank

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Those who do not try will never succeed, though failure can often be a stepping stone to later success. However, for all biobanks the risk of failure from closure also includes problems inherent in the institution’s responsibility toward its biosamples. Stephens and Dimond (2015) explore this phenomenon in two papers, looking at events leading up to the closure of an anonymized disease-specific biobank in the United Kingdom and Read the rest of this article

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