Boston Hospital to Sell Leftover Patient Tissue
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BOSTON, September 1, 2000 (Reuters) - Starting next week, patients at a
Boston hospital will be asked to allow leftover tissue from their
surgeries to be sold to genetic researchers around the world.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has agreed to participate in a
project
with biotech start-up Ardais Corp. of Lexington, Mass., to use genetic
research to find cures to disease, Ardais said in a statement.
Ardais said it hopes eventually to create a massive tissue catalog,
allowing
researchers to place Internet orders for tissue samples from patients
with the specific diseases they are studying.
Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, also has an
agreement with Ardais, which expects to sign up other medical
institutions,
the company said.
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