Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: biobank http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Organizing human specimen collections: Getting the best out of biobanks The diversity of biobanks, collections of human specimens from a variety of sources, raises questions about the best way to manage and govern them, finds a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Medicine. The research highlights difficulties in standardizing these collections and how to make these samples available for research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-human-specimen-biobanks.html Genetics Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:00:01 EST news278272928 Fish eaters run lower risk of heart attack – despite some mercury content Eat fish, but avoid fish with the most pollutants. This is the conclusion drawn by a group of researchers at Umeå University in Sweden after having weighed the risks of mercury content against the advantages of healthful fatty acids. The work was done as part of an international collaborative effort. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-fish-eaters-heart-mercury-content.html Health Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:31:19 EST news267701463 Europe tackles ethics of biobanks Collections of human biological samples used in medical research should be governed by clear rules that safeguard ethics while advancing knowledge, scientists said Wednesday at a Council of Europe symposium. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-europe-tackles-ethics-biobanks.html Other Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:08:39 EST news259416483 FDA-approved drug daclizumab makes established cancer vaccine work better A team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania found that the FDA-approved drug daclizumab improved the survival of breast cancer patients taking a cancer vaccine by 30 percent, compared to those patients not taking daclizumab. This proof-of-concept study is published this week in Science Translational Medicine. Senior authors of the study are Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, associate professor of Medicine, and James Riley, PhD, associate professor of Microbiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-fda-approved-drug-daclizumab-cancer-vaccine.html Cancer Wed, 16 May 2012 14:00:03 EST news256391812 Bioethicists contribute to consensus opinion on the responsibility of biobanks Bioethicists at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics are co-authors on a consensus article placing "significant responsibility" on biobanks to report individual research results (IRRs) and incidental findings (IFs) to the contributors of genetic material. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bioethicists-contribute-consensus-opinion-responsibility.html Genetics Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:05:22 EST news251550313 Study finds college students willing to donate genetic material to biobanks for research A majority of college students is receptive to donating blood or other genetic material for scientific research, according to a new study from Southern Methodist University, Dallas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-college-students-donate-genetic-material.html Other Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:21:33 EST news249052877