NHGRI s Collins Says US Must Launch Its Own Biobanking Project

Oct 27, 2005

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 27 (GenomeWeb News) - In light of biobanking projects underway in the UK, Iceland, Estonia, and Japan, the US can ill afford to not invest in its own population-based cohort study, Francis Collins said yesterday.

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