Biobanks in the Era of Digital Medicine

Digitalization is currently permeating virtually all sectors of modern societies, including biomedical research and medical care. At the same time, biobanks engaged in the long‐term storage of biological samples that are fit for purpose have become key drivers in both fields. The present article hig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Jacobs, Gunnar, Wolf, Andreas, Krawczak, Michael, Lieb, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
Materias:
Discovery & Development
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29285753
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpt.968
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Sumario:Digitalization is currently permeating virtually all sectors of modern societies, including biomedical research and medical care. At the same time, biobanks engaged in the long‐term storage of biological samples that are fit for purpose have become key drivers in both fields. The present article highlights some of the challenges and opportunities that biobanking is facing in the current proverbial “era of digitalization.”

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