Thus the President's tissue bank is the only game in town.

In most cases it is sent to tissue banks for processing and distribution.

But the Administration is going ahead with plans to set up fetal tissue banks at six hospitals.

The Institute has established a brain and tissue bank.

Last month, four men, including an embalmer and the owner of a human tissue bank, were arrested.

The agency announced ambitious plans to regulate tissue banks in February 1997.

In the Virginia case, the experts said, a reputable tissue bank followed all established procedures at the time.

Then the tissue banks offer the bone chips or skin to hospitals for a fee.

The Commission's proposal provides, therefore, the opportunity for private companies to be accredited as a tissue bank, just like public organisations.

True, the President ordered the establishment of a Government fetal tissue bank last month.

Last year, tissue banks distributed more than 750,000 grafts, and there were few reports of serious complications.

They set up a centralized tissue bank to ensure that the institutions would all use the same samples in their studies of potential treatments.

Currently, an off-site tissue bank waiver must be approved for each protocol.

Another obvious problem is that embryonic cells drawn from some tissue bank may not exactly match a patient's immune system.

Though an industry group sets voluntary guidelines, most tissue banks are not members and many set their own guidelines.

Manufacturers include blood and tissue banks, clinical investigators and other members of regulated industry.

Newsletter, phone support, education, tissue bank and handbook.

Tissue banks harvest and store human tissues for transplantation and research.

That transmission occurred even among the best of the tissue banks was cited as evidence of the need for guidelines.

Their substitute would also require researchers to go first to the tissue bank Mr. Bush has established.

Two tissue banks have been implicated; one admitted that it had not fully sterilized the tissues.

But an additional 70 tissue banks are not members of the association, Mr. Rigney said.

The American Association of Tissue Banks sets standards for its 75 members.

Come on to the tissue bank!"

For others, it's about control: several patient groups have created their own tissue banks so they can control the use of their tissues.