第1期总第60期 2014年2月 南京医科大学学报(社会科学版) ACTA UNIVERSITATIS MEDICINALIS NANJING(soci a1 Sciences) 25 Legal thought of the compensation for bone marrow donation under the new transplant technology Sun Yelong (Graduate School of East China University of Political Science and Law，Shanghai 200042，China) Abstract：In Flynn vsHolder，the court held that the hematopoietic stem cells taken from the blood by peripheral blood stem cell apheresis were a subpart of the blood rather than a subpaof the bone marrow， resulting that the compensation ban in National Organ Transplant Act was not applied to peripheral blood stem ce11 aDheresisThough this decision had some defects，it allowed the compensation for bone marrow donation， which would bring some positive policy significanceChina should allow compensation in the area of marrow donation bv peripheral blood stem cell apheresis because of social policys priority over the law of nature Therefore in ChinaBlood Donation Law，rather than Organ Transplant Regulation，should be applied in the area of donation by peripheral blood stem cell apheresis Key words：peripheral blood stem cell apheresis；compensation for bone marrow donation；Flynn Vs Holder；Organ Transplant Regulation；BIood Donation Law