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The ethics of research on stored biological samples: outcomes of a Workshop

Groups and Associations Vaz M, Sridhar TS, Pai SA
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27260824/ 2016

Research is often conducted using laboratory samples and data. The ethical issues that arise in a study involving residual samples are considerably different from those arising in a prospective study. Some of these ethical issues concern the risks to confidentiality, individual autonomy, trust in and credibility of the researcher or the research, commercialisation and even the nomenclature involved.