The 2009 annual special issue of Time Magazine on March 23rd summarized the '10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now', in which 'Biobank' had been listed as the eighth. Biobank or biorepository has been developed si...The 2009 annual special issue of Time Magazine on March 23rd summarized the '10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now', in which 'Biobank' had been listed as the eighth. Biobank or biorepository has been developed since last century. Tissue banks represented the early type of clinical biobanks and mainly concentrated on clinical usage such as transplantation at the beginning. The first tissue bank in the United States started in 1949 is the United States Navy Tissue Bank. In 1976, the foundation of American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) claimed the official show of biobanks on social stage (www.aatb.org). From the end of 20th Century to the beginning of 21st Century, diverse biobanks of clinical samples, seed banks, gene banks, germplasm banks of non-human species and other various types have sprung up.展开更多
文摘The 2009 annual special issue of Time Magazine on March 23rd summarized the '10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now', in which 'Biobank' had been listed as the eighth. Biobank or biorepository has been developed since last century. Tissue banks represented the early type of clinical biobanks and mainly concentrated on clinical usage such as transplantation at the beginning. The first tissue bank in the United States started in 1949 is the United States Navy Tissue Bank. In 1976, the foundation of American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) claimed the official show of biobanks on social stage (www.aatb.org). From the end of 20th Century to the beginning of 21st Century, diverse biobanks of clinical samples, seed banks, gene banks, germplasm banks of non-human species and other various types have sprung up.