by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
A study by the INPES (National Institute for Health Prevention and Education) published in 2007, and called “Les Français et la contraception” (French People and contraception) highlighted the “French paradox”: despite the highest rate of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
French researchers (French Blood Agency, EDS, CNRS, and University of Mediterranée) succeeded, by gene transfer, in modifying genetically a blood group (the Kidd/JK group). To do so, they used cord blood stem cells cultivated in vitro until obtaining erythrocytes....
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
In its 2007 Statement, the French Biomedicine Agency estimates at 176,523 the number of frozen embryos in France for 49,618 couples (at 31st December 2006)1. At this date, only 52.8% of these embryos were subject to “parental project”, or in other words...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
Since October 2006, the Agency of Biomedicine experiments, with discretion and in nine hospitals (in Angers, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nancy, Strasbourg and the Saint-Louis, Pitié-Salpêtrière and Bicêtre Hospitals in Paris), the organ transplantation on cardiac...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2009 | Gènéthique informs you
Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old young Italian woman who fell into a coma after a car accident 17 years ago, died on Monday 9th February, without nutrition and hydration during 3 days, after a long judicial struggle which shook Italy up. At Eluana’s father request made...
