Biobanks will provide 'electronic specimens' for medical research

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 06:07 in Mathematics & Economics

Future medical research will focus increasingly on electronic data, with less need both for laboratory animals and tissue samples. This long term trend emerged at a recent conference on biobanking organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which dealt with the challenges posed by the growing scale and complexity of research in the life sciences...

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