by Collectif | 15 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in conjunction with Stanford University has developed a sperm-sorting device to select the “healthiest” sperm for in-vitro fertilisation. Known as “SPARTAN” – Simple Periodic ARray...
by Collectif | 15 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Studies just published in the Cell Reports journal by scientists at the National Eye Institute (one of America’s national health institutes) and the Molecular Physiology Institute at Johannes-Gutenberg University, Germany, “could have strong...
by Collectif | 15 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In France and without any official figures to back their findings, the main associations promoting the legalisation of surrogacy [1] believe that approximately 370 couples or single people had babies via this route in 2017 with the total number of children...
by Collectif | 15 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Belgium, a decision taken by the Commission fédérale de contrôle de l’euthanasie (CFCEE – Federal Commission for Euthanasia Control) has led to the resignation of one of its members – a consultant and advocate of euthanasia. He commented that,...
by Collectif | 15 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Singapore, a man’s application to adopt his biological son born through surrogacy in the United States, has been rejected. The court held that “the steps allowing him to have a child in the United States would not have been possible in the island state...
by Collectif | 8 Jan, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
In the journal Nature, Professor David Liu and his colleagues report that one injection of a “genome editing cocktail” prevented hearing loss in young mice that would otherwise have gone deaf. Half of all cases of deafness have a genetic...