by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
DNA testing has revealed its secrets: Jan Karbaat is the genetic father of the 49 children who have been suing him since 2017. This former fertility clinic director, who died two years ago, is suspected of having provided his own sperm instead of donors’ in the 1980s,...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
On Monday, researchers at Tel Aviv University presented “a vascularized prototype of the human heart, printed in 3D using human tissues”. According to them, this “inert, cherry-sized heart” represents...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Yen, aged 31, and Hue, aged 35, are being investigated in Vietnam for “organizing commercial surrogacy”. Hue said that she met a man, Yang, who introduced himself as a hospital director. For a fee of 50-60 million dongs ($2,100-2,500), she made an...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
There is a global shortfall of 23.1 million women, including 11.9 million in China and 10.6 million in India. In 2017 alone, 800,000 girls were aborted in China and 671,000 in India. Researchers from the United Nations, the University of Singapore and the University...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A law approved yesterday by the United Arab Emirates’ Federal National Council has just authorized married couples to freeze their embryos during a MAR process. The legislators were careful to ensure that “the new legislation complied with Sharia law and that it...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 29 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
“The brain’s ability to revive its cells has been underestimated,” said Nenad Sestan, a researcher at Yale University in the USA. He is one of the authors of a study resembling “a science fiction film,” which was published on Wednesday in...