全球生物银行市场报告(2016-2020年)
A biobank is a biorepository for the preservation of biological materials used for the diagnosis of diseases, biodiversity studies, and research. It is used to store different kinds of samples such as tissue, blood, serum, DNA, and RNA. These banks vary significantly in size: biobanks in medical institutions hold relatively moderate numbers of samples while national biobanks contain a large number of samples. They are commonly used to support research, particularly those into genetic disorders, personalized medicine, and stem cell research for the treatment of genetic conditions, and to maintain and update age demographic databases.