by Collectif | 13 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
In the United Kingdom, the biotechnology company, Oxitec, a subsidiary of British company, Intrexon, “is constructing a huge plant”. The aim of this new facility costing €8.2 million, is to “produce a billion ‘risk-free’ mosquitoes every...
by Collectif | 13 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The United States House of Representatives “passed a bill on Tuesday to punish doctors performing abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy”. It carries a prison sentence of up to five years for these doctors; women who actually undergo the procedure...
by Collectif | 12 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Melissa Cook, surrogate mother who hit the headlines in 2015, presented her case to the Supreme Court: pregnant with triplets following a surrogacy agreement in California, the intended father asked her to abort one of the children. A legal battle ensued, also...
by Collectif | 12 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
For thirty years, predictive genetic tests (“capable of informing a healthy person at the time of the test whether or not he/she will become ill”) have been offered to children with one parent suffering from a genetic disease such as Huntingdon’s...
by Collectif | 12 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
“The power of biotechnologies, which now permit manipulations of life that were unthinkable until now, poses formidable questions,” emphasised the Pope in his opening address at the XXIIIth General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life....