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Part I Setting the scene -- Introduction: Individual rights, the public interest and biobank research 4000 (8) -- Genetic data and privacy protection -- Part II

"Human tissue and biobank research is of increasing importance for understanding the causes of widespread diseases and developing effective therapies. However,

International biobank collaborations allow for studies with large number of subjects where generalizability of findings across populations can be investigated,

The advent of the CRISPR/Cas9 class of genome editing tools is transforming not just science and medicine, but also law. When the genome of germline cells is mo