Biobanks have come a long way in the past 30 years. From their tentative origins as little more than freezer farms, storing tissue samples in the event that technology might find a way to elucidate ...

Dominique Anderson works for the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape and is funded by the National Research Foundation and EU Horizon 2020 program.

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

Dr Biesecker’s letter to the editor 2 raises several issues that merit further discussion. He states that in our recent commentary, we appear to discourage any return of results in research involving ...