The colombian experience in tissue banking: the bone and tissue bank of the cosmos and damian foundation, bogota.

Cell Tissue Bank

Banco de Huesos y Tejidos, Fundacion Cosme y Damian, Av. 9 119-24, Bogota, Colombia (Tel.: (571)6298086; Fax: (571)2133216).

Published: January 2003

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