by Collectif | 17 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Israel, a court authorised a couple to use their son’s sperm, harvested after his death in a car accident, for IVF involving a surrogate mother to produce their son’s offspring (see authorisation for posthumous sperm retrieval in Israel). The...
by Collectif | 17 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Last year, China terminated its one child policy “to off-set the ageing population”. But this step did not have the anticipated effect: “90 million couples had the opportunity to have a second child”, but “almost half of them are over 40...
by Collectif | 17 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
On 6 February, the dicastery for integral human development announced an “update to the health professionals’ charter”. This document, which was printed for the first time in 1994, “summarises the teaching of the Church regarding biomedical...
by Collectif | 17 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Ever since its discovery in 2012, the CRISPR-Cas 9 system “derived from a mechanism to protect bacteria against viruses, has invaded virtually all biomedicine laboratories where it is used to deactivate and modify genes freely, rapidly and at lower cost”....
by Collectif | 16 Feb, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
A team of scientists at Harvard University, led by Doctor Jeffrey Holt, has succeeded in restoring hearing to mice suffering from Usher’s syndrome, thanks to gene therapy. Their study, which was published in the Nature Biotechnology journal, is deemed to be a...