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On April, 2010, the Ministry of Health and Welfare gave a legislation notice of entire revision (bill) of Bioethics and Safety Act. This entire revision is to broaden the area of bioethics policy that has been limited to embryo and gene related items and to stipulate the ethical assessment system with regards to the research on subjects and human biological materials research. A role of the bio-bank in the research of medical science and life science is essential to clarify the relation between disease and genetic information and to present a disease treatment method of new paradigm. This study searches the contents regarding the entire revision (bill) of Act regarding bioethics and safety, reviews the insured protection plan in the research using the biobank and surveys the instances of legislation for the biobank in foreign countries.