by Collectif | 22 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Following legalisation of medically assisted dying in Canada, Catholic Bishops announced that “Murder has been legalised in Canada”. They are afraid of “abuse, slippery slopes and the risk of extending the law, as seen in other countries following the legalisation of...
by Collectif | 22 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
After “promising” preclinical tests in animals, Inovio Pharmaceuticals etGeneOne Life Science laboratories are launching a clinical trial in humans “to assess an anti-Zika vaccine”. This preventive vaccine “known a GLS-5700 will be tested on 40 healthy...
by Collectif | 21 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
On 21 June, the Advisory Committee of the American National Institute for Health (NIH) approved the first gene therapy clinical trial in humans using CRISPR-cas9 to conduct research into anti-cancer treatment. Anti-cancer cell therapies are promising but most...
by Collectif | 21 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The European Council’s Commission for Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development has opted to “suspend examination of the draft report in favour of surrogacy presented by Petra de Sutter”. This report should have been examined and voted on between 21 and 22...
by Collectif | 20 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Doctor Nissan’s team at the Institut des cellules souches I-Stem (Evry) (I-Stem Stem Cell Institute) has discovered “a new group pf potential medicinal products to treat Progeria as well as cancers, thanks to iPS stem cells”. Progeria is a rare genetic...
by Collectif | 20 Jun, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
“One of the first women to undergo a uterine transplant is expecting her second child,” announced Professor Mats Brannstrom during the annual conference of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Birmingham. Great Britain is following in Sweden’s...