ABSTRACT
Several working groups were established not only to understand current issues as well as future anticipated issues but also to address them. These groups guide the interdisciplinary patient care team by addressing the procurement, collection, preservation, acquisition, processing, transportation, and storage of biological materials of high quality and usability that are adequate for analysis and interpretation. The key areas of the tissue issue are obviously procurement, collection, acquisition, processing, preservation, storage, distribution, and bioinformatics that are successfully conducted within stringent policies, procedures, rules, and regulations. A strategy for collecting any biological specimens from patients is needed to ensure that the behavior of cells or tissue after it leaves the body of the patient is consistent with what it was while in the patient’s body. Protein and nucleic acids can be obtained from biological samples regardless of collection or preservation buffer.
