Biobancos, un asunto pendiente de legislar

Abstract

The present pa per pretends to bring a general over view about the ethics and juridical con sequences that may represent the establishment and functioning of human sample's biobanks. A legislation lack -despite of the existence of biobanks- in spire the present article to make a statement on what biobanks represents, the types of biobanks that exists, and which are their different pur poses that they have. In the other hand, I considered necessary a study to reflect on some sort of problems that could arise with the biobanks development, like the determination of the owner ship on human samples for re search, the probably discrimination based on genetic causes and how to protect the genetic data's privacy. The information, and the in crease of knowledge on the matter will aloud to create a convenient regulation over the biobanks, allowing them to fulfill their objective, making easier the exchange of samples in scientific researches, and at the same time, to protect the altruistic doners rights, taking in account that they give for free a part or fluid of their bodies.