Resources
As a national service, we offer a help desk for biobanking, arrange work shops on quality issues and performs quality studies.
The Norwegian biobank environment represents a greatly valuable biobank resource that is organized in Common Service for Biobanking.
Best Biobanking Practice for Norwegian Biobanks
Our "Best Biobank Practice" is a dynamic document, and will be regularly updated.
Recommendations for Prospective Clinical Research Biobanks
This guide contains a number of general recommendations for sample logistics, requirements for sample packages for blood and tissue, and a review of cost elements to be used in calculating the cost of using general research biobanks.
Useful publications
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What motivates or discourages young adults from participating in population-based surveys? (read)​
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Toward a More General Consent for the Use of Patients’ Biological Material and Health Information for Medical Research—The Patient Perspective (read)​
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Participant engagement and involvement in longitudinal cohort studies: qualitative insights from a selection of pregnancy and birth, twin, and family-based population cohort studies (read)​
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Dynamic governance: A new era for consent for stem cell research (read)​
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Effect of Storage Time up to Nine Years at -25°C on 15 Selected Biochemical Serum Components (read)​
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Ultralow amounts of DNA from long-term archived serum samples produce quality genotypes (read)
