by Marie-Anne Chéron | 22 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In a study to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists [1] show that in-vitro fertilisation procedures using frozen embryos generate the same number of births as fresh embryo techniques. This study was carried out in the light of preference...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 22 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The 2017 US organ donor list, drawn up by the United Network for Organ Sharing[1], is both “optimistic and disconcerting “. In 2017, organs were harvested from 10,281 deceased donors, i.e. “an increase of 27% over the last...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 5 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Twenty-five years ago, after undergoing in-vitro fertilisation, an anonymous couple donated frozen embryos to “give a chance to those unable to conceive a child naturally”. For their part, Tina and Benjamin Gibson knew when they got married...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 5 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Thirty years ago, Doctor Donald Cline, a retired fertility doctor from Indianapolis (USA), used his own sperm “approximately 50 times” to inseminate patients. He has just been given a one-year suspended prison sentence by the Marion Superior Court (USA)....
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 5 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
German scientists at the Leibniz Institute are experimenting with the use of sperm to treat female reproductive tract cancers. In vitro, they placed bovine sperm loaded with an anticancer agent in contact with uterine tumours. The sperm swam towards the tumours and...