What I know ? Biobanks

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Les biobanques
Florence Bellivier, Christine Noiville
128 pages
9 €
ISBN : 978-2-13-057442-2

This is a French book but are you aware of the existence of such "library" ?

Cover translated from French :

Today, it is hardly a hospital or an institute of research that keeps all biologic sample" systematically in the event ", nourishing "tumors library", "tissues library", "plasma library" or other collections of DNA thus. On a national scale, Iceland or United Kingdom already sustain projects destined to gather the data of health associated to the samples of hundreds of thousands of people.
By their novelty and their size, the "biobanks" appears thus at a time like a precious tool for the medical research but also as a source of serious preoccupations. As many stakes as this work unveils and analysis as many questionings to which it brings some ethical, legal and economic elements of answer.

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Biobank definition from Wikipedia :

The database of deCODE genetics,[1] a company in Iceland, and the Utah Population Database[2] are two examples of biobanks that are working to realize the potential for large molecular repositories. The Utah Population Database is by far the largest, incorporating multigenerational data for over 8 million people [3]. The United Kingdom Biobank intends to archive the genetic material of 500,000 individuals into a database that hopes to address complex diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, forms of dementia and other conditions. Howard University's National Human Genome Center announced plans to develop a biobank over the African diaspora.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biobank