by Collectif | 27 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
On the occasion of the centenary symposium organised last week by MIT AeroAstro, Elon Musk, founder of the PayPal, SpaceX (Space Launcher) and Tesla Motors (Electric Vehicle) Companies expressed concerns about artificial intelligence (AI): “I think that we must...
by Collectif | 27 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
According to the latest WHO estimates, of the almost 100,000 organ transplants carried out annually across the globe, 10,000 can be attributed to international trafficking networks. To illustrate this substantial business, the Lepoint.fr website recounts...
by Collectif | 26 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Scotland, the Parliamentary Justice Committee is preparing to debate a draft law that would legalise assisted suicide from the age of 16 for the terminally ill or those suffering from serious diseases with only a short life expectancy. In order to block this draft...
by Collectif | 26 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Germany, with effect from November 2014, a draft law devised by Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat party to ban organised assisted suicide, will be put to the vote in the German Parliament. Currently, based on a legal loophole, two organisations, namely the...
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
On Friday, Australian surgeons at the Saint-Vincent Hospital in Sydney and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute announced that they had succeeded, in a world first, in transplanting hearts that were no longer beating. To date, doctors have used hearts that are...