Such use of human tissue as a market commodity has been described as neo-cannibalism.
The Human Tissue Authority regulates the removal, storage and use of human tissue, not the freezing of sperm and embryos as stated in an earlier version.
Skloot's final discussion of the ethics of the use of human tissue is followed by nine pages of acknowledgments that are more than usually fatuous and self-regarding, and the author's determination to write herself into the story distracts the reader from the dense factual background.
It does not fall under the remit of the Human Tissue Authority (HTA), which regulates the removal, storage and use of human tissue, because it was "not contemplated" when the Human Tissue Act was passed in 2004, the authority advised the court.
The study has been conducted in conjunction with current ethical standards on the use of human tissue.
The infrastructures for the systematic procurement, management and eventual use of human tissue and data are positioned between healthcare and research.
The use of human tissue assay was with informed consent and was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science.
In the last years we have witnessed a spectacular progress in the clinical use of human tissue in different areas which has generated a considerate tissue donor demand.
Thirdly, practices of residual use of human tissue and data procured in the context of healthcare often do not directly fall under the remit of most clinical research legislation.
Although the use of human tissue in biomedical research is not in itself new (Strong 2000), some have argued that recent biomedical research practices using tissue sample collections constitute a new object of study within biomedical research (von Versen 2000).
