Human Specimens for Research

Finding Human Tissues for Research

• NCI Specimen Resource Locator
• The NCI Tissue Expediter
• NCI-Supported Specimen Resources

Legal and Ethical Issues

• Ethical Collection of Specimens
• How Federal Regulations Apply to Research on Human Specimens
• 50-State Survey of Laws Regulating the Collection, Storage, and Use of Human Tissue Specimens and Associated Data for Research: pdf version | html version

How to Establish and Manage a Tissue Bank or Other Specimen Resource

• Funding for the Collection and Distribution of Specimens
• How to Establish a Tissue Bank or Other Specimen Resource
• Biohazards
• How the NCI Evaluates NCI-supported Resources
• The International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER)