1. The Limits of Informed Consent
2. 27. 45 C.F.R. Parts 160, 164.
3. 31. It is easy to imagine a situation in which a cancer patient consents to donate his or her surgically excised tumor to a biobank on the express condition that neither the biobank nor any researcher associated with the biobank will ever contact the individual again. Because current HIPAA rules would require additional authorizations for each research protocol, the biobank would have to violate the individual's express wishes or discard the sample.
4. 56. Moore v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal, 793 P.2d 479 (Cal. 1990).
5. 2. De Code Genetics, using a database of donated samples, has announced preliminary advances in discovering the genetics of cardiovascular disease, schizophrenia, osteoporosis, and other disorders. See (last accessed February 1, 2005).