A special theme-issue of Philosophical Transactions B, Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene, compiled and edited by Emily K. Meineke, Barnabas H. Daru, T. Jonathan Davies and Charles C. Davis to highlight the importance of preserving biological specimens, was published on 19 November 2018.
Recently, a six-gene signature predicting breast cancer lung metastases obtained for metastatic human tissue specimens was published (Landemaine et al, 2008), which correlated with increased risk of lung metastasis in a series of 72 lymph node-negative breast tumours.
Many collections were sent to Europe for study during the American colonial period, and checklists of marine species were compiled as studies of the specimens were published.
Patient characteristics of melanoma specimens were published, except for DMBC9 which was derived from primary tumor, T3bN1bM0 of male patient, age 52.
Between 1991 and 1997, three papers about microbiological concordance between bone and non-bone specimens were published, accounting for 145 patients with osteomyelitis [ 6- 8].
By the time their paper, the first based on detailed observations of bonobo behavior, was published, the specimens were dead, allegedly killed by stress during Allied air raids.
The second oldest species is Proteroctopus ribeti a single specimen from the Jurassic of France was published in 1982.
flabellifolia was published by George in 1996, the type specimen having been collected northwest of Northampton in 1993.
Clinicopathological and experimental studies on VEGF-C/D expression in esophageal squamous cell specimens and in esophageal adenocarcinoma specimens have been published [ 18, 19].
The long-term outcomes and the development of the preoperative endocrine prognostic index (PEPI) based on pathological stage, and the ER status and Ki67 expression level of the surgical specimen has also been published [ 14].
