by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
European Parliament members adopted on 15 June 2006 a 50 billion euro program for research (7e PCRD, 2007-2013). This Framework Program for Research and Development allocates 2 billion euros to biotechnologies and life science, which was subject to long debates to...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
Going out of the ethical dilemma Whereas pressures in favour of research on human embryos intensify, an article by Gregory Benichou, professor and the Essec and titular of the bioethics and therapeutic innovation chair comes to clarify the debate1. He explains...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 May, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
Abortion in Switzerland In 1982, abortion reimbursement was imposed to private health insurance companies on presentation of a double medical opinion. Since 1 October 2002, a mere signature of the mother allows abortion until the 12th week and further, a single...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 May, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
Every year, 12,000 in vitro fertilizations are performed in Belgium, between 2,500 and 3,000 children are born with these techniques and 3,700 out of 10,000 couples concerned, come from abroad. However, until now, reproductive medicine and human genetics were not...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
What is most intimate to life than life itself, the story of our first and last moments? This life we received, we can transmit it. And then, one day, this life will go by, our life and the one of those we love … Today, science enables to give life as well as death....