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The first symposium focusing on the sociological aspects related to mitochondrial diseases and new reproductive technologies was held in...
In the United States, insurance companies in states where assisted suicide is now legal are refusing to cover vital treatment for some...
In California, 4 years after the incident, a doctor is accused of killing a child to harvest his organs. An inquiry was launched on 12 June...
The start-up company, Darwin Life, recently launched by American physician, John Zhang, offers three-parent IVF[1] (seeOne baby,...
On revising its penal code, Angola wanted to re-examine abortion legislation. In a bill adopted after the first reading by MPs...
Living Cell Technologies, a New Zealand company, is developing treatment using porcine cells transplanted to the brain of patients with...
A study carried out by Compassion and Choices, one year after the legalisation of assisted suicide (see California's turn to legalise...
Baby Austin arrived on 31 March 2017, 18 weeks early. He didn't weigh more than 570 grams. His skin was so fine that his organs could be...
On Friday, the Dutch courts authorised DNA sampling from the personal effects of Jan Karbaat, a former sperm bank director who died...
In the UK, the minister for Health made public her annual report on “abortion statistics” mid-June. In 2016, 190 406 women aborted in the country. Among them, 3208 aborted after the diagnosis of a foetal abnormality (congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities), of which 706 because of Down Syndrome. There were as many as 689 abortions due to Down Syndrome in 2015. This is a 46%...
On June 9th last, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), called upon by Charlie’s parents, ordered...
“When testing questions birth”. Last 8th and 9th June, the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales...
