by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
“Egg donation is like blood donation”: cameras hidden by the Daily Mail Newspaper show nurses in United Kingdom fertility clinics trying to convince women “to donate their eggs for money”. According to the law, egg donation is prohibited but...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee (British Parliament) has published a brief report to conclude its extensive inquiry into genomes and genome editing. The report focuses on the project entitled, “100,000 genomes”[1] and on the...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
The start-up Company, XOR Labs, based in Toronto, “one the world’s capital cities in terms of lung transplantation”, is endeavouring to export “a machine to preserve the lungs following a transplant”. This compact device “can store...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In England, Georgia Bond and Jack Bowman, two British teenagers from Liverpool who have been friends for years, “have found out that they were both conceived by in-vitro fertilisation”. They “had even joked about having the same sperm donor”....
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In Pakistan, in an “improvised operating theatre in a house in Lahore”, four people have been arrested for the illegal harvesting of two livers “scheduled for transplantation involving two Oman nationals”. The team that carried out these...
by Marie-Anne Chéron | 15 May, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Following the death of the fifth transplant patient, the French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products’ Safety (ANSM) instructed the Carmat Company to suspend clinical trials involving its artificial heart (see Death of fifth patient transplanted with...