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“It’s all about trust”: reflections of researchers on the complexity and controversy surrounding biobanking in South Africa

10 Oct 2016

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BACKGROUND: Biobanks are precariously situated at the intersection of science, genetics, genomics, society, ethics, the law and politics. This multi-disciplinarity has given rise to a new discourse in health research involving diverse stakeholders. Each stakeholder is embedded in a unique context and articulates his/her biobanking activities differently. To researchers, biobanks carry enormous transformative...

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PMID: 27724893
DOI: 10.1186/s12910-016-0140-2

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