by Alexis DUPORT | 2 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Norma McCorvey, the American woman responsible for the decriminalisation of abortion in the United States in 1973, died on 18 February at the age of 69. She became a “keen opposer to abortion” after converting to Evangelical Protestantism and later to...
by Alexis DUPORT | 2 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
According to the Health Authorities in British Columbia (Canada), “more organs are available for transplantation and some of these organs come from victims of drug overdose”. A state of emergency was declared in this region ten months ago...
by Alexis DUPORT | 1 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Technical advances do not always come with ethical ones… Danielle Moyse, philosopher and expert for Gènéthique, has noticed that with the arrival of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), eugenic techniques are getting more serious, while, on the other hand, disabled...
by Alexis DUPORT | 1 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
At a time when Europe is questioning the status given to robots, Emmanuel Brochier, professor of philosophy at the IPC in Paris, answers Gènéthique’s questions concerning relations between men and robots. Gènéthique: Paris took on an orchestra conductor...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Since April 2015, CRISPR has been shaking the scientific community. This new tool that enables one to “edit the genome” opens the way to new gene therapy treatments, but also transhumanism. Brought together for several summits since 2015, international experts...