Biospecimen identifiers
Published on: Monday 28, March 2011Nietfield JJ, Sugarman J, Litton JE, "The Bio-PIN: a concept to improve biobanking," Nature Reviews Cancer, 11: 303-308, 2011.
Why it is important: The paper proposes the structures of a method of identifying biospecimens based on single nucleotide polymorphisms. Issues of identification of samples and tracking of consent are complex. This article presents an interesting option for dealing with these issues.
