by Collectif | 26 Jun, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
Living Cell Technologies, a New Zealand company, is developing treatment using porcine cells transplanted to the brain of patients with Parkinson’s disease in an attempt to halt disease progression. Four patients have undergone this type of transplant and...
by Collectif | 26 Jun, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
A study carried out by Compassion and Choices, one year after the legalisation of assisted suicide (see California’s turn to legalise medically assisted dying), has revealed that more than 500 people obtained a prescription to end their own life in...
by Collectif | 25 Jun, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Baby Austin arrived on 31 March 2017, 18 weeks early. He didn’t weigh more than 570 grams. His skin was so fine that his organs could be seen through it, and his ears and lungs had not developed. In the United Kingdom, abortion is authorised up to the...
by Collectif | 18 Jun, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
“Killing off death”. This transhumanist objective is at the heart of a controversial trial to resuscitate brain-dead patients – the Reanima project. The biotechnology company, Bioquark, which already created a stir back in May 2016...
by Collectif | 18 Jun, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
According to a Supreme Court judgment in Iowa, United States, on 2 June, the parents of a “severely disabled” child can sue doctors for failing to detect the disability during pregnancy. The case in question involves a little boy, born in...
by Collectif | 18 Jun, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On Friday, the Dutch courts authorised DNA sampling from the personal effects of Jan Karbaat, a former sperm bank director who died recently. He is suspected to be the biological father of children born to twenty-two recipients who underwent in-vitro fertilisation...