Every 20 minutes, your nose secretes a sticky liquid that keeps it moist. Also in your mouth a liter of saliva is secreted daily, and in your eyes, the tear glands produce a centiliter of saline fluid, which takes care that your eye does not dry out. And to all this we must add the 40 to 250 centiliters that we urinate and the 150 grams of excrement that we expel every day. We also release up to 12 liters of sweat, which, along with the semen, hair and skin cells we lose along the way, are carriers of our DNA. Only in a milliliter of seminal fluid are there 300,000 nanograms of our precious genetic material, which gives so much information about ourselves, spreading out there. And the mentioned sweat contains 11.5 nanograms per milliliter. In fact, when we see CSI officers taking DNA samples at the crime scene, they are actually collecting traces of sweating from the fingers of those who have touched a certain object.
I left her because she was mine:
In general, all these organic residues that we leave out there, once they leave our body they are not ours. In fact, how many times have we seen a police officer give a suspect a drink and then analyze the glass? And, once the residue is left, your authorization is no longer necessary to analyze the sample. Not in vain, in the USA if a woman has sex with a man, once the semen has been deposited inside it, it legally belongs to her, and not to him. But another very different thing is the use that can be made of the information that this sample contains. To clarify what the Spanish law specifically says about the collection and analysis of biological remains, we contacted one of the greatest experts in Spain, Dr. Pilar Nicolás, from the Interuniversity Chair of Law and the Human Genome (University of the Basque Country) . "The collection and analysis must be previously authorized by the judge, except in cases of urgency, in which the Police can collect the vestiges and judicial control occurs afterwards," he tells Quo. This is so thanks to the Criminal Procedure Law and Organic Law 10/2007, regulating the police database on identifiers obtained from DNA. It is the norm that deals with "obtaining and forensic analysis of biological samples and filing of the resulting data," added the doctor. And it is always "the judge who will determine whether the collection and analysis of the samples is appropriate, because it is only in the investigation of certain crimes", and it is he who will ensure that the rights of what the law calls "source subjects" are respected "
There is a very recent example of this type of case. In 2003, ETA member Gurutz Aguirresarobe had coffee just before assassinating Joseba Pagazaurtundua, and the Police collected samples from the cup. Seven years later, during an interrogation at the National Court, it was enough to offer him a bottle of water, keep it and later analyze his saliva. The comparison was positive and the terrorist is already 32 years in prison.
But there are not only criminal cases. There are, for example, those of semen donation. Pilar Nicolás clarifies: “The rights of the source subject on the data in his biological sample are maintained even if it has been separated from his body. The Biomedical Research Law in particular, when it comes to genetic data in the biomedical field, and the Data Protection Law in general, for personal information, regulate for what and under what conditions this information can be obtained. In summary, the rights of the source subject to the data found in his biological sample are maintained even if it has been separated from his body”.
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