by Collectif | 28 Aug, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Each cell exists in duplicate in a human being: one transmitted by the father and the other by the mother. The parental imprint is a “mechanism via which some genetic sequences remain silent, i.e. are not expressed, depending on whether they come from the mother...
by Collectif | 27 Aug, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Belgium, based on a Parliamentary report issued by the commission fédérale de contrôle et d’évaluation de l’euthanasie (Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia), the number of reported cases of euthanasia “has tended to rise substantially...
by Collectif | 26 Aug, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
” It’s a world first”. In Beijing, a young boy with bone cancer was not given a titanium prosthesis but a vertebra produced with the 3D printing technique and subsequently implanted in his body. It’s the first time that a 3D printed vertebra has...
by Collectif | 26 Aug, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Following the scandal triggered by the abandonment of Gammy – a baby with Down syndrome and born through surrogacy, a number of events have unfurled.(Gènéthique press review on August 4th, 2014) in Thailand, a series of events have unfurled In fact, Reuters’...
by Collectif | 26 Aug, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Last January, a research team led by Professor Haruko Obokata, a scientist at the Riken Institute (Kobe – Japan), published articles in the Nature journal confirming that they had succeeded in creating a new type of pluripotent stem cell – STAP cells. Since then, the...