by Collectif | 30 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A national sperm bank has just opened in the Birmingham Women’s Hospital in the United Kingdom. To date, British women have mostly turned to Denmark and the United States for sperm donation. Since 2004, the number of sperm donors has constantly risen but...
by Collectif | 28 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The draft law seeking to authorise surrogacy for singles and same sex couples has passed the first stage in the legal battle. In its first reading last Monday in Knesset, the law was approved by a majority of 45 votes to 15. According to the Israeli Health Minister,...
by Collectif | 28 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
Once again, Google has ranked itself as a world leader in the neuro business. Its laboratory, Google X, specialising in the investigation of potentially revolutionary technologies, has just announced the development of nanoparticles used to detect the early...
by Collectif | 27 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The James Dyson Prize for innovative, investigational projects has just been awarded to two students, Arianna McAllister and Lian Leng, of Toronto University for their invention of the bio-printer, Print Alive. This fast, inexpensive printer, which is no bigger than a...
by Collectif | 27 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
American scientist, Erik Betzig, has just developed a new technique allowing “intracellular processes to be observed in 3D and in real time”. According to the Sciences & Avenir website, “the main problem with microscopes used to...