by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Cloning
Chinese researchers at Yunnan University and the biotechnology company Sinogene claim to have cloned a police dog to reduce how long it takes to train these dogs and the associated costs. No details on the technique used were given. The long-term objective is said to...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
The Alana Foundation, based in São Paulo, Brazil, has just donated $28.6 million to MIT[1][1][1]. MIT announced on Wednesday that this donation will be used to establish the Alana Down Syndrome Center. This research centre will “combine the expertise of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
After failing to obtain a 60% majority of doctors against assisted dying, the Royal College of Physicians has abandoned its opposition to this practice and adopted a neutral stance on the matter. A survey of nearly 7,000 English doctors shows that 43.4% of them...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
A woman from Massachusetts, USA, has sued the fertility clinic that froze her embryo for 13 years without her knowledge. Marisa Cloutier-Bristol and her first husband apparently dreamt of having ten children, but despite several cycles of IVF treatment [1] at Women...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
On 15 March, Indian police intercepted a man at Bombay airport. He was carrying a nitrogen-packed canister that turned out to contain human embryos. The arrested man, Partiban Durai, admitted to working for a Malaysian surrogacy agency Heart to Art, which “acts...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 1 Apr, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The WHO expert advisory committee on genome editing recently met in Geneva for two days (see Genetically Modified Babies: WHO launches ethics committee). It has called for an international registry of scientists working on genome editing to be established for...