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Biological collections and biobanks are essential for scientific research and innovation, supporting various scientific fields such as health sciences, biotechnology, food and agriculture. They preserve and provide diverse organisms, biological materials and their associated data, enabling the study of biodiversity, diseases, and their evolution and ecological functions. These collections are crucial for addressing global challenges like biodiversity loss, sustainable food and feed production, and human health, including understanding variations in pathogenic and etiologic agents over time. Biobanks support the development of new therapies, biomarkers, and diagnostic tests while promoting equitable benefit sharing from genetic resource utilization and developing and implementing international standards, crucial for improving research reliability and reproducibility. Collaborative networks enhance biobank operation by organizing data, exchanging biological material and facilitating trans-biobank studies and protocols standardization/harmonization. The establishment of the Lusophone Network of Biobanks and Biological Collections is a significant step toward promoting collaboration, capacity building and capacity development among Portuguese-speaking countries, many of them dealing with tropical health issues, facilitating knowledge exchange and resource sharing for scientific advancement on a global scale.
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The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. AA, IC, and SB acknowledge the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT) for funds to GHTM – UID/04413/2020 and LA-REAL – LA/P/0117/2020. NL acknowledges the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UIDB/04469/2020 unit, and by LABBELS – Associate Laboratory in Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Microelectromechanical Systems, LA/P/0029/2020, and by “MIRRI-PT (Polo Norte)” project (PINFRA04/84445/2020) funded by European Regional Development Fund under Norte2020—Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2024 Arez, Souto, da Silva, do Nascimento, Couto, Belo and Lima.
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access and benefit sharing biobanking biodiversity biological collections capacity building collaborative network global health Portuguese-speaking countries Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being