by Marie-Anne Chéron | 30 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The use of human embryo stem cells in an attempt to treat age-related macular degeneration: scientists at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem embarked on a clinical trial at the end of 2015 (seeAuthorisation for a new clinical trial based on human embryo stem cells). Since...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 30 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A new document published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) is encouraging fertility clinics to prepare themselves for a new wave of “intrafamilial reproductive arrangements”. The authority has noted that increasingly more...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
“Egg donation is like blood donation”: cameras hidden by the Daily Mail Newspaper show nurses in United Kingdom fertility clinics trying to convince women “to donate their eggs for money”. According to the law, egg donation is prohibited but...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee (British Parliament) has published a brief report to conclude its extensive inquiry into genomes and genome editing. The report focuses on the project entitled, “100,000 genomes”[1] and on the...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The start-up Company, XOR Labs, based in Toronto, “one the world’s capital cities in terms of lung transplantation”, is endeavouring to export “a machine to preserve the lungs following a transplant”. This compact device “can store...