Stephen N. Thibodeau PhD

“Biobanking is really one of the cornerstones of a translational research program.  It all comes down to the quality and the availability of biospecimes,” says Stephen Thibodeau, Ph. D., co-director of the Mayo Clinic Biobank.  Accordingly, the National Cancer Institute has begun the Cancer Human Biobank (“caHUB”) to collect specimens from cancer patients and standardize best practices for acquiring, curating, and using patients’ tissues. The piece also mentions UK Biobank, which is building its collection of blood and urine samples from 500k Britons between the ages of 40 and 69.         MORE

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