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The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks
The pandemic of COVID-19 reached an unprecedented scale in terms of spread and deaths, its mitigation required a joint effort of governments, hospitals, private companies and other organizations. One type of organization that could undertake a major role in the process is biobank – a mediator betwee...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10502418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719742 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1256601 |
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author | Juozapaitė, Dovilė Minkauskas, Mantas Laurinaitytė, Inga Simutytė, Martyna Griškevičius, Laimonas Naumovas, Daniel |
author_facet | Juozapaitė, Dovilė Minkauskas, Mantas Laurinaitytė, Inga Simutytė, Martyna Griškevičius, Laimonas Naumovas, Daniel |
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description | The pandemic of COVID-19 reached an unprecedented scale in terms of spread and deaths, its mitigation required a joint effort of governments, hospitals, private companies and other organizations. One type of organization that could undertake a major role in the process is biobank – a mediator between clinical practice and research. Naturally, biobanks are well equipped to alleviate the burden of a pandemic with their expertise in biospecimen and health information collection, sample preparation and storage, bioethics and project management. Here, we present the participation of Vilnius Santaros Klinikos Biobank (BB VSK), Lithuania in the overall management of the pandemics on the national level. We further discuss the role of biobanks in preparation and management of future pandemics. |
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spelling | pubmed-105024182023-09-16 The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks Juozapaitė, Dovilė Minkauskas, Mantas Laurinaitytė, Inga Simutytė, Martyna Griškevičius, Laimonas Naumovas, Daniel Front Public Health Public Health The pandemic of COVID-19 reached an unprecedented scale in terms of spread and deaths, its mitigation required a joint effort of governments, hospitals, private companies and other organizations. One type of organization that could undertake a major role in the process is biobank – a mediator between clinical practice and research. Naturally, biobanks are well equipped to alleviate the burden of a pandemic with their expertise in biospecimen and health information collection, sample preparation and storage, bioethics and project management. Here, we present the participation of Vilnius Santaros Klinikos Biobank (BB VSK), Lithuania in the overall management of the pandemics on the national level. We further discuss the role of biobanks in preparation and management of future pandemics. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10502418/ /pubmed/37719742 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1256601 Text en Copyright © 2023 Juozapaitė, Minkauskas, Laurinaitytė, Simutytė, Griškevičius and Naumovas. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Juozapaitė, Dovilė Minkauskas, Mantas Laurinaitytė, Inga Simutytė, Martyna Griškevičius, Laimonas Naumovas, Daniel The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks |
title | The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks |
title_full | The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks |
title_fullStr | The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks |
title_full_unstemmed | The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks |
title_short | The COVID-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks |
title_sort | covid-19 pandemic reveals the wide-ranging role of biobanks |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10502418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37719742 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1256601 |
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