by Collectif | 16 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
On Friday, 11 September 2015, during a seminar, the American Ministry of Defence research laboratory, DARPA, declared that teams of scientists at the Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University, succeeded in fitting a 28 year-old male amputee with an...
by Collectif | 15 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Professor Samir Hamamah and his team (Inserm U1230, CHU Montpellier), concerned by the In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) failure rate[1], have carried out a study involving 117 women, the results of which have just been published in the PlosOne journal. These...
by Collectif | 14 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Laurent Alexandre, President of DNAVision, highlights what the handling of human embryo DNA could trigger. In fact, the Hinxton group recently submitted an appeal to obtain authorisation to modify embryo DNA. From April 2015 onwards, Chinese scientists have been...
by Collectif | 14 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The United Kingdom High Court of Justice has refused to grant legal paternal status to a single man whose child was born through surrogacy. The petitioner is the biological father of the child who was conceived using the ovules of one woman and the...
by Collectif | 13 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Carine Brochier from the European Bioethics Institute (EBI) takes stock of current embryo status in Europe. She refers to the recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): Parillo versus Italy, according to which an embryo cannot be...