by Collectif | 26 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On Tuesday, Gordon Lake and Manuel Valero, a Spanish-American homosexual couple were granted guardianship of Carmen, born fifteen months ago in Thailand through surrogacy. The biological mother contested the child leaving the country and refused to sign papers to...
by Collectif | 7 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Scientists hope to use the CRISPR technique to prevent the HIV virus from entering patients’ immune cells or to inactivate the virus once it has infected the cell. However, a recent study on this subject published in the Nature journal has just qualified these...
by Collectif | 7 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the American Family Planning Association of Indiana and Kentucky legally attacked the State of Indiana on the recently approved abortion law (see Indiana is the second US state to ban abortion in relation to...
by Collectif | 7 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
Can the brain be programmed to “win” or “lose” a battle? This is precisely what neuroscientists at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, are attempting to prove. At any rate, the answer seems to be positive for the zebrafish whose distinct neuronal...
by Collectif | 6 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
On Wednesday, during a Governmental session focusing on Russia’s demographic situation, Russian Health Minister, Veronika Skvortsova, stated that the number of abortions ought to be reduced. According to her, this decrease of 8% in 2015 and 24.5% compared to...
by Collectif | 5 Apr, 2016 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
Socialist MP, Salima Moyard, has just filed a draft bill to guarantee the right to assisted suicide in private and public medical establishments and in EMS (Medical-Social Establishments) in the Canton of Geneva. Without providing any further details, Federal...
