Protection of individual rights in the field of biomedicine

High-quality medical services based on biotechnologies are very needed in Russia and thus are keeping growing from year to year. The developments of medical biotechnologies offer an in-depths studies of disease mechanisms, allow to produce new medical equipment and tools, and medicines. Thereby both diagnosis and treatment are becoming more and more effective. The article examines the issues of legal regulation and legal protection of individual rights using biotechnologies. Attention is paid to ensuring quality control of services resulting from the widespread introduction of the results of biotechnologies into civil circulation, to the responsibility for the inadequate quality of services rendered, as well as to the protection of individual rights when using biotechnologies. Today, there is a clear lack of scientific researches on issues of legislative regulation of using achievements and, respectively, as well as of countering abuses in the field of biomedicine and of protecting human rights. So, it seems important to conduct theoretical and practical researches concerning means of the protection of human rights in the process of making use of biomedicine. The purpose of the paper is to identify potential negative consequences for individuals in the field of biotechnologies, and to develop proposals aimed at preventing and reducing them. This paper concludes that modern technologies in medicine could threat the human rights. Legal and criminalistic aspects of protecting safety while making use of biomedical achievements are presented below. The article founds a need for a criminal law response to crimes in the field of biomedicine and for innovated approaches to oppose them.