Stem Cell Line Provenance and Donor Consent: A Position Paper on Registry Requirements

Authors

  • Corrado-L Tarabusi Centre for Stem Cell Biology, Basilicata Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Potenza, Italy Author
  • Gertrud-M Bosshardt Centre for Research Ethics, Val Poschiavo Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Poschiavo, Switzerland Author
  • Helle Ots-Vahtra Department of Biobanking, Saaremaa Institute of Biological Sciences, Kuressaare, Estonia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22668611

Keywords:

Stem Cell Line Provenance and Donor Consent; Biological sciences; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Stem Cell Line Provenance and Donor Consent has moved quickly from a niche research question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for stem cell line provenance and donor consent, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory
and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely
working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either
broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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