by Alexis DUPORT | 30 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Unsurprisingly, the French High Authority for Health (HAS) [1] recommends including non-invasive testing for Down Syndrome in the French testing policy[2] For the occasion the HAS has given it a new barbaric name: “Test ADN libre circulant dans le sang maternel pour...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Though the report from the French High Authority of Health is yet to be published, a decree from last May 7th has included Non-Invasive prenatal diagnosis in the list of prenatal diagnosis examinations. End of April, a first piece of information comes through:...
by Alexis DUPORT | 16 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Sordid. An Australian website, Baby Bee, offers women to make jewellery from their maternal milk, placenta, umbilical cord stem cells, from the ashes of a loved one, but also from supernumerary human embryos obtained from in vitro fertilization (IVF). A new market...
by Alexis DUPORT | 16 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Published in the official journal of May 7th 2017, a decree signed on May 5th 2017 has just included NIPT in the list of authorized prenatal diagnosis tests, just a few days before the end of the presidential mandate. Requiring only a simple blood test, NIPT is a test...
by Alexis DUPORT | 2 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
As the French president’s mandate is coming to its end, it makes sense to do a bioethics stocktaking[1]. Jean Marie Le Méné, President of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation speaks of the broad patterns that have emerged from François Hollande’s mandate. Gènéthique:...