title: [The legal concept of personhood in Colombia: are there biological reasons to change it?].
abstract: Nowadays, as a consequence of scientific advances in embryology, genetics and assisted reproduction techniques, the scientific community ask for new laws to establish new parameters to use with these recent discoveries. Discoveries that have changed the legal concept of "person". In many countries this concept is absolutely useless when facing new techniques such as cloning, stem cell research and embryo storage. That is why it is necessary to change its definition to guarantee the right to life and give a better protection to human embryos.
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Investigación en Genética Humana Aplicada, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia.
authors.forename: Olga Carolina
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Cárdenas-Gómez
authors.forename: Carlos Hernán
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Sierra-Torres
mesh_terms: D003105:Colombia; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D004626:Embryology; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D028723:Personhood; D009626:Terminology as Topic