Journal
BIOMARKER INSIGHTS
Volume 17, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/11772719221091750
Keywords
Biobanks; Inventory; Utilization
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Funding
- Biobanking and Biospecimen Research Services Program at BC Cancer (Provincial Health Services Authority)
- Canadian Tissue Repository Network (Institute of Cancer Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
- Canadian Tissue Repository Network (Canadian Institutes of Health Research)
- Canadian Tissue Repository Network (Terry Fox Research Institute)
- Canadian Tissue Repository Network (Canadian Cancer Research Alliance)
- Cancer Institute NSW Biobanking Stakeholder Network for the NSW Biobank Certification Program [15/BIO/1-03, 2017/BIO002]
- NSW Office of Health and Medical Research of the NSW Health Statewide Biobank
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Preserved biospecimens in biobanks and clinical archives are important for biomarker research. However, recent advancements in technology have led to an excess supply of biospecimens, prompting a need to reassess inventory targets and allocate resources more effectively.
Preserved biospecimens held in biobank inventories and clinical archives are important resources for biomarker research. Recent advances in technologies have led to an increase in use of clinical archives in particular. in order to study retrospective cohorts and to generate data relevant to tissue biomarkers. This raises the question of whether the current sizes of biobank inventories are appropriate to meet the demands of biomarker research. This commentary discusses this question by considering data concerning overall biobank and biospecimen numbers to estimate current biospecimen supply and use. The data suggests that biospecimen supply exceeds current demand. Therefore. it may be important for individual biobanks to reassess the targets for their inventories, consider culling unused portions of these inventories. and shift resources towards providing prospective custom Biobanking services.
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