Ricerca sul materiale biologico: ritorno al futuro
Research on biological material: back to the future

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Research on biological material: back to the future

Research using biological specimens and health data can accelerate the understanding of many diseases and the effectiveness of preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. However, researchers have to make a great effort to guarantee respect for transparency and protection of sensitive data of patients, or more generally, of donors whose biological material is collected and stored for future research purposes. Recently, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe proposed new recommendations for the use of biological materials of human origin for future research purposes. The Recommendation CM/Rec(2016)6 focuses on the safeguarding of fundamental rights of the persons, whose biological materials are stored for biomedical research, with particular regard to frail people, unable to provide consent, to guarantee their dignity, integrity and privacy. Furthermore, attention is paid to the transfer of material and data, to the transparency of access policies and to the security in the governance of the collections, in a dimension of globalization and internationalization of research that is a powerful tool to improve human health and healthcare systems.

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