by Collectif | 18 Nov, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Cambodian Ministry of Health has decided to ban recourse to surrogacy given the nationwide increase in this practice since surrogacy was banned in Thailand and India. Moreover, until now, the cost of surrogacy in Cambodia has been very low compared to the United...
by Collectif | 18 Nov, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis
A study on male contraception carried out by the University of Edinburgh and published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, had to be interrupted at the end of October. A certain number of men complained of multiple side effects: mood...
by Collectif | 18 Nov, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis
Gary Marcus, founder of the Geometric Intelligence Company, is drawing inspiration from the way in which children develop their capacity for abstraction and common sense in order to “humanise artificial intelligence (IA)” and boost its...
by Collectif | 18 Nov, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Cellectis, a biopharmaceutical company, has announced that it hosted the first gene-edited dinner in New York on 20 October 2016. The dinner took six months to plan and involved extensive food testing. University Professors, doctors, journalists, celebrities...
by Collectif | 10 Nov, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Two administrative justice decisions “have just undermined the bioethics law prohibiting post-mortem procreation using frozen sperm by allowing the latter to be exported” (see Insémination post-mortem : une française obtient l’exportation du sperme de...