How much do specimens cost and who owns them?
Each tissue bank specifies the costs for raw specimens and specimen retrieval. The costs and business rule are described in “Decentralized IRB Model for automonous specimen banks” Q: What is the relationship between PSL and SPIN? A: SPIN was originally funded as two consortia between Harvard-UCLA and Pittsburgh-Indiana. PSL is the production instantiation of that effort across all four HMS Teaching Hospitals. The SPIN technology has been extended for biosurveillance and other uses.
