Personal medicine—the new banking crisis

As the healthcare industry moves from a twentieth century approach of providing treatments of last resort to a future of individualized medicine, biobanks will play a pivotal role in this transition. Yet at the cutting edge of biobanking research are new ethical, social and policy challenges beyond...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature biotechnology 2012-02, Vol.30 (2), p.141-147
Hauptverfasser: Scott, Christopher Thomas, Caulfield, Timothy, Borgelt, Emily, Illes, Judy
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:As the healthcare industry moves from a twentieth century approach of providing treatments of last resort to a future of individualized medicine, biobanks will play a pivotal role in this transition. Yet at the cutting edge of biobanking research are new ethical, social and policy challenges beyond those familiar to basic biomedical research.
ISSN:1087-0156
1546-1696
DOI:10.1038/nbt.2116