by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In Mexico, the New Hope Fertility Clinic is to implement the controversial “three-parent IVF” procedure for twenty “client” couples over the next six months. Thus twenty children of exclusively foreign parentage will be born using this...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has commissioned around a hundred scientists, academics and philosophers to compile a guide that deals with “ethical considerations in the design of artificial intelligence and autonomous...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
During the International Congress on Palliative Care held in Montreal in October 2016, several delegates shared their concerns regarding the future of palliative care in Quebec. Because, for many, the arrival of decriminalised euthanasia on 5 June 2014 exposed the...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Professors Gordon Keller and Stéphanie Protze, regenerative medicine specialists in the United States, have developed “the first stimulating functional cardiac cells” from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS), thus paving the way for alternative pacemaker...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
American scientists [1] have emphasised in a study that approximately “six percent of women in the United States who were infected with the Zika virus during their pregnancy had foetuses or babies with congenital deformities”. The study was published in...
by Collectif | 13 Jan, 2017 | Bioethics press synthesis | Cloning
A team of French-American scientists has investigated gestation failures in animal cloning. Their results suggest that this technique is now outdated and will be used less and less. Scientists have been testing the transfer of the nucleus of an adult cell to an...