by Collectif | 15 Dec, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Mexican State of Tabasco is currently the only state in the country to authorise non-commercial surrogacy. Consequently, it has attracted numerous strangers and gay couples who want to become parents. In surrogacy terms, Mexico is thus an alternative to the...
by Collectif | 14 Dec, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
An adolescent suffering from sickle cell disease is “in the process of being cured”. He took part in a stem cell clinical trial conducted by Professor Marina Cavazzana at the Necker Children’s Hospital, Paris Public Hospitals and the Imagine Institute in September...
by Collectif | 14 Dec, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In Great Britain, the Tinder application has teamed up with the National Health Service (NHS) to launch an organ donation awareness campaign known as The Wait. The campaign mainly targets young people between 18 and 35 years of age – the main users of Tinder. ...
by Collectif | 13 Dec, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
After Melissa Cook, another surrogate mother in California[1] was subjected last month to pressure from the intended parents to have an abortion at seventeen weeks, 26 year-old Brittneyrose Torres, is keen to recount her story to protect other surrogate mothers from a...
by Collectif | 13 Dec, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
OpenAI was officially launched on Friday. This is a “research company” which “aims to prevent artificial intelligence spin-offs”. Composed of “several Silicon Valley stakeholders”, the aim of Open AI is “to allow numerical intelligence to advance since this is the...