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Home Medical Centers as Suppliers Providing Tissue

How do medical centers provide tissue for research?

Medical centers provide tissue to internal and external researchers either directly by transferring surgical remnants to researchers at the time the tissue is removed from a patient or indirectly, by sending tissue to a formal or informal repository at the medical center. Some medical centers may collaborate with profit or non-profit repositories by supplying tissue.

Medical Centers as Suppliers of Human Tissue for Research