by Alexis DUPORT | 4 Feb, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
When given the floor, during one of the last conferences of the European forum of bioethics, Jean-François Mattei, speaking on the theme “Does medicine lead to transhumanism?” starts off by saying that “medicine no longer leads to reparation but to augmentation”....
by Alexis DUPORT | 25 Jan, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
Chinese research announcements often trigger heated debates as evidenced with the recent reports by Xu Xiaochun, scientist and Chinese entrepreneur, who wants to build “the world’s biggest commercial animal cloning centre”, and the Sun Ya Tsen University Laboratory in...
by Alexis DUPORT | 19 Jan, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
In Belgium, the words of Monseigneur de Kesel, archbishop of Malines-Brussels, concerning conscientious objection in Belgian hospitals, caused a lot of controversy. Very quickly, they were relayed by the announcement of the refusal by a catholic rest home to accept...
by Alexis DUPORT | 11 Jan, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
International Stem Cell Corporation has just announced the launching of a clinical trial in Australia to assess the effectiveness of a treatment based on human parthenogenetic stem cells for Parkinson’s disease [1]. It is a disease that affects around seven million...
by Alexis DUPORT | 5 Jan, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
In order to obtain the right from the Law to develop gestational surrogacy legally, the companies invested in the market of human material have deployed a judicial sophistry: the expected answer is slipped in the question and, thus, closes the debate. The offensive is...