title: New legal developments in Xenotrasplantation: the Spanish approach.
abstract: Xenotransplantation, as a therapeutical technique consisting in the transplantation in human beings of organs, tissues and cells from animals, has given raise to important expectations in the scientific community so as to achieve an effective solution to the scarcity of human organs for alotransplantation. The present contribution establishes the legal framework existing in Spain which could be applicable in the field of Xenotransplantation.
authors.affiliation: Inter-University Chair BBVA Foundation, Provincial Government of Biscay in Law and the Human Genome, University of Deusto and University of The Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain.
authors.forename: Carlos María
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Romeo-Casabona