by Collectif | 26 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
Whilst the Canadian Parliament is in the process of drafting a law authorising assisted suicide and euthanasia (see The Ottawa government starts the journey towards assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia), some doctors are voicing their concerns: will they be...
by Collectif | 26 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On Tuesday, Gordon Lake and Manuel Valero, a Spanish-American homosexual couple were granted guardianship of Carmen, born fifteen months ago in Thailand through surrogacy. The biological mother contested the child leaving the country and refused to sign papers to...
by Collectif | 26 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | GMO
Summoned for the first time to comment on a plant that had been genetically modified by CRISPR, the US Department of Agriculture deemed that its administration “did not have the power to regulate the cultivation of a Paris mushroom genetically modified using CRISPR”....
by Collectif | 26 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
The 2015 Annual Report drafted by the Regional Euthanasia Monitoring Committees in the Netherlands highlighted a 50% increase in the number of cases of euthanasia and assisted suicide since 2011. Out of the 147,010 deaths recorded in 2015, 5,516 involved euthanasia or...
by Collectif | 7 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Can the brain be programmed to “win” or “lose” a battle? This is precisely what neuroscientists at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, are attempting to prove. At any rate, the answer seems to be positive for the zebrafish whose distinct neuronal...