Table 1 Numbers and percentages strongly agreeing or agreeing to the statements regarding who should receive benefits from research on stored tissue samples
MTAs should require that, foreign collaborating scientists share royalties from discoveries, patents and intellectual property that arises from research on the samples. ... | China n = 154 | Egypt n = 186 | India n = 127 | Japan n = 864 | Korea n = 105 |
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   With local scientists | 107 69.5% | 162 87.1% | 102 80.3% | 430 49.8% | 75 71.4% |
   With the population or country from which the samples were taken | 95 61.7% | 129 69.4% | 100 78.7% | 302 35% | 55 52.4% |
MTAs should require that the population or country from which the samples were taken is given access to material products such as pharmaceuticals, that arise from research on the samples | 118 76.6% | 166 89.2% | 102 80.3% | 407 47.2% | 73 69.5% |
Local scientists are under pressure to accept unfavorable conditions for the transfer of their sample collections to foreign collaborating scientist with access to more resources | 13 8.4% | 78 42% | 41 32.2% | 187 21.6% | 66 62.8% |