by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The Irish Government has approved a bill presented by Health Minister, Simon Harris, focusing on “a full set of measures […] regarding medically assisted procreation”. For the first time in Ireland, couples will be able to benefit from...
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Canada, the creation of embryos from three DNAs (see One baby, 3 DNAs, 3 transgressions) is banned. Canada’s law on assisted procreation states that no-one can consciously “modify the genome in a cell of a human being or embryo in vitro such that the...
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Tuesday, the Indian Central Government announced its opposition to the authorisation of “living wills”. This announcement is part of a debate on active and passive euthanasia, which has been on-going since 2011. In 2011, the case of a nurse...
by Collectif | 17 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Conscientious objection
Following the vote on the bill to decriminalise abortion in Chile at the end of August (see Chile decriminalises abortion in some cases), the Constitutional Court extended conscientious objection to institutions. This clause, which was originally applicable only to...
by Collectif | 17 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The Asterias company is carrying out a 1/2A clinical trial for patients presenting spinal cord injuries. This trial assess the safety and efficacy of AST-OPC1 therapy, which involves injecting these patients with neuronal precursors obtained from human embryo stem...
by Collectif | 17 Oct, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
A team of scientists at the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Boston School of Medicine has succeeded in obtaining functional type II pneumocytes [1] from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). This work, which was published in the Cell Stem Cell journal, will...