by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A Dutch fertility expert, gynaecologist Roel Schats[1], is calling for the introduction of a “surrogate mother database”. This register would list women agreeing to carry a child for infertile couples. Surrogacy is legal in the...
by Collectif | 11 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In England, a Family Court judge, Mr. MacDonald, has noted that judges have to rule on increasingly complex family situations: “Judges, practitioners and professionals are more and more concerned with cases that arise from surrogacy arrangements between...
by Collectif | 6 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Brisbane (Queensland), Australia, two paramedics transporting a “terminally ill female patient” admitted to a palliative care unit, responded to her wish to “see the sea one last time”. When transporting her in the ambulance, they made a...
by Collectif | 6 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Cloning
Based on cells taken from Snuppy, “the first dog cloned ten years ago,”, a team comprising South Korean and American scientists [1] successfully “recloned” four puppies” a few years ago. Snuppy had been cloned by the same unit...
by Collectif | 6 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
A 33 year-old man with third degree burns covering virtually all of his body has been saved thanks to skin grafts from his twin brother. He was treated at the Saint Louis Hospital burns unit by teams led by Professor Mimoun (plastic and reconstructive surgery) and...
by Collectif | 6 Dec, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
Scientists at the University of Southern Carolina (USA) have allegedly increased the memory function of volunteers by up to 30% thanks to a brain implant. The scientists presented this “world first” during the annual meeting of the Society for...