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A tissue bank is an establishment that collects and recovers human cadaver tissue for the purposes of medical research, education and allograft transplantation. A tissue bank may also refer to a location where biomedical tissue is stored under cryogenic conditions and is generally used in a more clinical sense.
The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) is a nonprofit transplant trade organization that is dedicated to ensuring that human tissues intended for transplantation are safe and free of infectious disease, of uniform high quality, and available in quantities sufficient to meet national needs.
NDRI partners with a nationwide network of over 130 tissue source sites (TSS) throughout the United States, including organ procurement organizations (OPO), tissue banks, eye banks, and hospitals. [citation needed]
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A tumor bank is sometimes also referred to as a Tissue Bank, since normal tissues for research are also often collected.However, this function is distinct from a Tissue Bank which collects and harvests human cadaver tissue for medical research and education, and banks which store Biomedical tissue for organ transplantation.