by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In England, Georgia Bond and Jack Bowman, two British teenagers from Liverpool who have been friends for years, “have found out that they were both conceived by in-vitro fertilisation”. They “had even joked about having the same sperm donor”....
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In Pakistan, in an “improvised operating theatre in a house in Lahore”, four people have been arrested for the illegal harvesting of two livers “scheduled for transplantation involving two Oman nationals”. The team that carried out these...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Following the death of the fifth transplant patient, the French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products’ Safety (ANSM) instructed the Carmat Company to suspend clinical trials involving its artificial heart (see Death of fifth patient transplanted with...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The draft recommendation entitled “recourse to new genetic technologies in human beings” was adopted on 25 April 2017 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Committee for Social Affairs (see Council of Europe reflects on editing of...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Chinese scientists have undertaken a clinical trial using the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing tool in an attempt to treat cancer patients. The trial will include 20 patients with an aggressive gastric cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and lymphoma. Jia Wei, Deputy...