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22 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 1 (2015-2016)

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Richmond Journal of Law & Technology


  CAN   I CALL  You   BACK?   A SUSTAINED INTERACTION WITH
     BIOSPECIMEN DONORS TO FACILITATE ADVANCES IN
                            RESEARCH

                          Jonathan S. Miller

  Cite as: Jonathan Miller, Can I Call You Back? A Sustained Interaction
  with Biospecimen Donors to Facilitate Advances in Research, 22 RICH.
    J.L. & TECH. 1 (2015), http://jolt.richmond.edu/v22i1/article1.pdf

                          I. INTRODUCTION

[1]    For the cure. This statement resonates throughout society and
offers a simple reasoning  for the conduct of  biomedical research. It
provides a strong impetus for advocates of biomedical research to pursue
appropriations to  support  research  hypotheses,  advanced   medical
technologies, and targeted therapeutic strategies. Answering sophisticated
medical questions, however, requires researchers and clinicians to have an
adequate  supply  of materials  necessary to  facilitate their research
endeavors. These  materials-commonly referred   to as biospecimens-
may  include frozen human  embryos,  tissue specimens, blood samples,
buccal swabs, or exhaled breath condensate, all of which may be collected
and stored in biobanks.1

[2]    The  use  of human   embryos  for research purposes  generated
national attention on March 9, 2009, following the release of Executive
Order (E.O.) 13505, titled Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific
Research  Involving Human   Stem  Cells.2 E.O. 13505 recognized  that

1 See Biobanking, COLLINS DICTIONARY,
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/biobanking, archived at
http://perma.cc/WQU4-Q5GD (last visited Oct. 9, 2015) (defining biobanking as the
practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (e.g. blood,
urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc.) designed to further medical research).


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