Biobancos, laboratorios clínicos e investigación biomédica

Abstract

Biobanks are non-profit public or private institutions for the collection, processing, storage and distribution of human biological specimens, linked to associated data of those samples. The Instituto de Salud Carlos III has set up and funded a hospital biobank network focused on the storage of samples for research. This network is expected to integrate into the Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMR) whose objective is to favour large-scale studies. The main organisational and operational aspects of biobanks are reviewed as well as their relationship with clinical laboratories and biomedical research.