by Collectif | 12 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Scientists led by two Harvard University geneticists, George Church and Luhan Yang[1], have genetically modified porcine embryos in order to make their organs compatible for human transplantation in the future. Their study, published in the...
by Collectif | 12 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On 21 August 2017, Chile’s Constitutional Court validated the law decriminalising abortion in the case of rape, when the mother’s life is in danger and in the event of a non-viable foetus. It rejected by six votes to four, the two appeals lodged by the...
by Collectif | 11 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On 4 August, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) instructed “fertility doctor”, John Zhang, to stop marketing three-parent IVF [1] [2]. He was involved in the birth of a Jordanian child through three-parent IVF last year...
by Collectif | 11 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Scientists at Kyoto University should start the first clinical trial in the autumn, testing out a medicinal product identified using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) to treat a rare bone disorder. The team, led by Junya Toguchida, used iPS cells to model...
by Collectif | 11 Sep, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
As announced at the end of July, the work of the American-Sino-Korean team were published in the Nature journal on 2 August (see United States: first genetically modified human embryos). Their work is “having a major media impact and raising...
by Collectif | 21 Aug, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
On Monday, 24 June, the parents of 11 month-old Charlie Gard, who is suffering from a rare genetic disorder, announced the end of their legal battle to keep their child alive. On 25 July, the Court had to decide (see Charlie Gard: Another hearing before the British...