by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords debated surrogacy last week, urging the Government to reform the current law. The House of Lords considers that the commercial surrogacy ban “has a prejudicial effect on altruistic surrogacy”. ...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The British decision taken on 15 December authorising three-parent IVF procedures is raising numerous questions including the parentage of the unborn children: the law does not change but society’s perception is clouded. According to the British Law,...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
In 2012, French woman Emmanuelle Charpentier and American woman Jennifer Doudna discovered the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic modification tool, which has revolutionised gene therapy. The two women received the Gairdner Prize this year. CRIPSR-Cas9 is used to remove and add...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
An artificial pancreas could arrive on the market as early as 2018. Based on a blood glucose sensor, an insulin pump and an algorithm to calculate the dose of insulin, this pancreas has proved useful in the treatment of diabetes. The latest system advance “was...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Mexico, the New Hope Fertility Clinic is to implement the controversial “three-parent IVF” procedure for twenty “client” couples over the next six months. Thus twenty children of exclusively foreign parentage will be born using this...