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=== Economics === Researchers have called for a greater critical examination of the economic aspects of Biobanks, particularly those facilitated by the state. National biobanks are often funded by public/private partnerships, with finance provided by any combination of national research councils, medical charities, pharmaceutical company investment, and biotech venture capital. In this way, national biobanks enable an economic relationship mediated between states, national populations, and commercial entities. It has been illustrated that there is a strong commercial incentive underlying the systematic collection of tissue material. This can be seen particularly in the field of genomic research where population sized study lends itself more easily toward diagnostic technologies rather than basic etiological studies. Considering the potential for substantial profit, researchers Robert Mitchell and Catherine Waldby argue that because biobanks enroll large numbers of the national population as productive participants, who allow their bodies and prospective medical histories to create a resource with commercial potential, their contribution should be seen as a form of "clinical labor" and therefore participants should also benefit economically.
=== Legal cases === There have been cases when the ownership of stored human specimens have been disputed and taken to court. Some cases include:
Moore v. Regents of the University of California Greenberg v. Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute
== See also == Biorepository Biological database Gene bank Genetic fingerprinting Genomics Genotype Penn Medicine BioBank
== References ==
== Further reading ==
== External links ==
Specimen Central biorepository list, A worldwide listing of active biobanks and biorepositories Harvested Organs Revolutionize Medicine - 2007 PBS/Wired Science report 8 minute biobank video made by Genetic Alliance International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Archived 2018-05-10 at the Wayback Machine