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...