by Collectif | 25 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On Saturday, the Portuguese National Council for Medically Assisted Procreation authorised its first surrogacy case. It concerns a 30 year-old woman who underwent “removal of the uterus following severe endometriosis” and her 50 year-old mother...
by Collectif | 25 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
A team at Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis (Missouri), has succeeded in transforming skin cells into motor neurones whilst avoiding “recourse to human stem cells and related ethical problems”. Scientists achieved this result by...
by Collectif | 25 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
An “unprecedented” procedure to transplant non-beating hearts and “restart” them using electrical energy would increase the annual number of heart transplants in the United Kingdom by 42%. The procedure would thus cut the waiting list...
by Collectif | 25 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A German study involving 1.4 million individuals [1] concludes that older fathers are more likely to have less fertile children. This phenomenon is allegedly due to the quality of the sperm, which decreases with age. Scientists at Georg August University in...
by Collectif | 25 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The Governor of North Carolina (USA), John Carney, has approved legislation to ensure that individuals cannot be refused organ transplantation on the basis of a physical or mental disability alone. Transplantation can only be refused if the organ under consideration...