The Biobank of the Public Health System of Andalusia offers advice with regard to the organization of biobanks and the management of human biological samples for research.

For some years now, society has demanded transparency and regulations with regard to the use of human biological samples for research while also demanding responsibility for the rights and protection of donors. Our country has set the benchmark in Europe in this area and we have a specific law that regulates biomedical research, namely Law 14/2007. We wish to highlight the following lines taken from its preamble:

"In a few years, the collection, use, storage, and transfer of biological samples for diagnostic and research purposes has become enormously important. Research involving procedures with human biological samples is becoming more frequent and research with gametes or embryonic and reprogrammed cells has become more common in the field of cell therapy and regenerative medicine. However, these scientific advances give rise to ethical and legal uncertainties that must be regulated, with the balance and prudence that is required by an issue so complex that it affects the identity of the human being so directly."