by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
Scientists at the University of Geneva and ETHZ Zurich (Institute for Technology and Natural Sciences)”have discovered that the symptoms of Down syndrome are triggered by the uncontrolled deregulation of cell proteins”. Their results have been...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
This is what John, a 22 year-old Englishman said when he learned that he had been born through gamete donation. His younger sister, who is 19 and pregnant, asked her parents if there were “any hereditary family conditions she ought to know about”. Her...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Former NASA employee, Josiah Zayner, “has become the biohacker on everyone’s lips” after experimenting on himself. Following the transplantation of faecal matter in 2016, he talked about “injecting himself with a CRISPR system allegedly...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
In the United Kingdom, Louise Johnson decided to speak out and make society more aware of Down syndrome. Six years ago, she gave birth to twins, Thomas and Jacob, one of whom has Down syndrome. Nothing was detected during her pregnancy. The doctor asked...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Australia, excess embryos generated through a medically assisted procreation programme can be “donated” to an infertile couple without the procedure having to remain anonymous. For Natalie Parker and her husband, this “embryo donation”...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
This Wednesday, a controversial law on “assisted death” was adopted following a “rigorous debate” in the Australian State of. This will take effect in June 2019. This is the first Australian State to legalise assisted suicide after a very brief...