by Collectif | 21 Aug, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland has just announced the genetic editing of “a large number of human embryos at the single-cell stage”[1] using CRISPR, a tool that allows genes to be modified “quickly and...
by Collectif | 21 Aug, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
An American woman whose husband died two and a half years ago, gave birth to the couple’s first child, Angelina, on Tuesday. In December 2014, her husband, a New York police officer, died, killed by bullets whilst in active service. When she learns of his...
by Collectif | 21 Aug, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
In Canada, Kristine Barry was twenty weeks pregnant when she learned that her baby had two serious congenital heart defects. The heart was not pumping adequately to ensure the healthy flow of blood and oxygen through baby’s body. Doctors warned the mother that...
by Collectif | 21 Aug, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
In Japan, a project led by Professor Yoshiki Sawa and colleagues at Osaka University, is aiming to use iPS cells in a clinical trial involving three patients suffering from ischemic heart disease – a coronary disease which manifests as inadequate oxygen intake...
by Collectif | 31 Jul, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Today, 26 million people around the world suffer from heart failure and donors are seldom found. An innovative artificial heart has been developed at the École polytechnique fédérale in Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich EPFZ), Switzerland....