by Collectif | 15 Jun, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Professor Antonio Pellicer, co-Director of the hospital group IVI[1] in Spain, is carrying out a clinical trial in Valence involving around twenty women. This trial involves “stimulating follicles, the precursors of oocytes, by injecting stem cells obtained from...
by Collectif | 15 Jun, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court rendered illegal the law demanding an ultrasound scan prior to an abortion in North Carolina. The Court of Appeal had previously deemed this law to be anti-constitutional, thereby blocking its application. The aim of...
by Collectif | 14 Jun, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Yesterday, the Swiss voted in favour of pre-implantation diagnosis. 62% accepted the general amendment to the Constitution which creates a framework authorising doctors to practise PGD. However, only 43% of voters participated. This vote “is, however,...
by Collectif | 12 Jun, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The biological forearm prostheses of a rat and baboon were obtained by a team in Boston (United States) under the supervision of Dr. Harald Ott at Massachusetts General Hospital. This American team succeeded in reconstructing the limbs from stem cells. The...
by Collectif | 11 Jun, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
An anonymous young woman of 27 has become the first female in the world to give birth to a baby after having had her fertility restored via transplantation of her own ovarian tissues, collected and frozen prior to puberty. The news was announced by a medical...