by Collectif | 17 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
On 17 September 2015, the private company, Kallistem, a start-up company of the Functional Genomics Institute in Lyon, held a press conference on “cell therapy technology differentiating between germinal stem cells”allowing “morphologically normal spermatozoa to be...
by Collectif | 17 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Last week, the HFEA, British Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, received a request from a scientist wishing to genetically handle human embryos for research purposes. “To our knowledge, this is the first request,”declared the HFEA spokesperson.[1] ...
by Collectif | 16 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
On Friday, 11 September 2015, during a seminar, the American Ministry of Defence research laboratory, DARPA, declared that teams of scientists at the Applied Physics Laboratory, John Hopkins University, succeeded in fitting a 28 year-old male amputee with an...
by Collectif | 15 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Professor Samir Hamamah and his team (Inserm U1230, CHU Montpellier), concerned by the In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) failure rate[1], have carried out a study involving 117 women, the results of which have just been published in the PlosOne journal. These...
by Collectif | 14 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
The United Kingdom High Court of Justice has refused to grant legal paternal status to a single man whose child was born through surrogacy. The petitioner is the biological father of the child who was conceived using the ovules of one woman and the...
by Collectif | 14 Sep, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Laurent Alexandre, President of DNAVision, highlights what the handling of human embryo DNA could trigger. In fact, the Hinxton group recently submitted an appeal to obtain authorisation to modify embryo DNA. From April 2015 onwards, Chinese scientists have been...