Future Uses of the Department of Defense Joint Pathology Center Biorepository

by Institute of Medicine, Board on the Health of Select Populations, Committee on the Review of the Appropriate Use of Afip's Tissue Repository Following Its Transfer to, et al.

Founded during the Civil War as the Army Medical Museum, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) amassed the world's largest collection of human pathologic specimens and was considered a premier consultation, education, and research facility by the end of the 20th century. Samples from the AFIP were instrumental in helping to solve public health mysteries, such as the sequence of the genome of the 1918 influenza virus that killed more than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309260655
• ISBN13: 9780309260657
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"