by Collectif | 25 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
François Xavier Putallaz, Professor of Philosophy at Freiburg University, reviewed legislation governing the application of PGS(prenatal genetic screening), to be voted on by the Swiss nation on 5 June 2016. As far as the Professor is concerned, “the real problem...
by Collectif | 24 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The report by the New York Times of a meeting, held behind closed doors at Harvard, on 10 May 2016, bringing together 150 scientists, lawyers and entrepreneurs to discuss the “construction of an artificial human genome” has stirred up quite a storm. “We are still a...
by Collectif | 24 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
“Organoids” are no longer an element of sciencefiction: these “small-scale organs” exist and the techniques used to create them have advanced considerably over the last five years. Some are about to be marketed. They are “already a fast and profitable tool for...
by Collectif | 23 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
In the United Kingdom, a senior High Court Judge declared that British legislation discriminates against single-parent families of children born through surrogacy and that UK law in this area contravenes human rights. The claimant in this case was the father, a single...
by Collectif | 23 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
“We doctors cannot prescribe a ‘good death’” is the title given to a publication by Seamus O’Mahony, Consultant Physician at Cork University Hospital in Ireland. Sickened by the monthly publication of a new “well-meaning report on deaths and end-of-life care”...
by Collectif | 22 May, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
On Saturday, the March for Life united thousands of people in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. This was the first event of its kind in a country where abortion has been decriminalised since 1978 and is authorised up to the tenth week of pregnancy. The aim of this...