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Ethics of research on human biological materials

Nature Biotechnology volume 26, pages 29–30 (2008)Cite this article

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I would like to clarify some of the Council of Europe's (Strasbourg, France) legal instruments—in particular the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, and Recommendation (2006) 4 on Research on Biological Materials of Human Origin—that are referred to in the correspondence 'Ethical framework for previously collected biobank samples' by Gert Helgesson et al.1, published in the September issue.

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Lwoff, L. Ethics of research on human biological materials. Nat Biotechnol 26, 29–30 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0108-29b

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