31.   Human tissue can transmit disease, so the FDA requires tissue banks to test for such infections as the AIDS virus.

32.   Nonprofit tissue banks act as middlemen for corporations developing products crafted from donated bone, heart valves, veins and tendons.

33.   The department also found that tissue banks and companies accepted tissue without proof of inspection and failed to repeatedly test bodies for hepatitis B and C.

34.   The department recommended that tissue banks make their finances public but it has no enforcement authority.

35.   The Food and Drug Administration said it intends to begin registering all tissue banks this spring.

36.   These cells could grow huge tissue banks for safer drug testing.

37.   Those rules, which are not yet final, give the agency power for the first time to shut down tissue banks that do not meet standards.

38.   They found other families with the disease and set up a registry and tissue bank for genetic research.