by Alexis DUPORT | 14 Jun, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
According to the Journal of Medical Ethics, around 40 organ donations from patients that were euthanized on their demand have been listed in Belgium and the Netherlands. Still too few according to some Belgian and Dutch Doctors, who expressed their opinion in an...
by Alexis DUPORT | 25 Apr, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
In December, the new Polish Government[1] decided to terminate State funding of the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) programme with effect from mid-2016 (cf. Poland: the government announces cessation of IVF reimbursement). The Health Minister, Konstanty Radziwill,...
by Alexis DUPORT | 25 Apr, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
“Genetic revolution”, “biotechnological tsunami”, “fantastic tool”: the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, the new genetic tool, brings both hope and concern, and, for over a year now, has given rise to much debate. At the beginning of it all, the publication of two...
by Alexis DUPORT | 22 Feb, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
After having been sent away by the European commission in 2014, the greatest European Citizen Initiative (ECI), One of US, is currently inviting legal, health and political experts from all over Europe to sign a petition calling upon a key debate aiming at restricting...
by Alexis DUPORT | 8 Feb, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
CRISPR-Cas9 “can now reprogram a genome in one week instead of a few months”. Obtained from “a natural defence mechanism present in bacteria,” this tool “can trigger mutations, insert or remove genes and even inhibit their expression” in all cell...