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Legacy samples in Finnish biobanks: social and legal issues related to the transfer of old sample collections into biobanks
16 Oct 2019
Abstract excerpt
Biobank operations started officially in Finland in 2013 when the Biobank Act defining and regulating biobank operations came into force. Since then, ten biobanks have been established and they have started to collect new prospective samples with broad consent. The main corpus of biobank samples, however, consists of approximately 10 million "legacy samples". These are old diagnostic or research samples that were...
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