by Collectif | 14 Jul, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Professor Li Jinsong’s team in China has succeeded in producing large quantities of “good quality” artificial sperm from mice. In 2012, the same team published similar results but “the quality of the spermatozoa posed a problem”. They improved their...
by Collectif | 8 Jul, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Yesterday, a team of scientists from Oregon and Stanford and Valence Universities published an article in the Nature journal announcing that they could “now predict chromosomal abnormalities in human embryos created by in-vitro fertilisation within the first 30 hours...
by Collectif | 7 Jul, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Prenatal diagnosis
On Tuesday, the Federal Public Health Office (FPHO) announced that, with effect from 15 July 2015, mandatory treatment insurance schemes would refund non-invasive screening tests for Down syndrome, Edward syndrome or Patau’s syndrome or NIPS. To benefit from...
by Collectif | 7 Jul, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The ECJL (European Centre for Law and Justice) has published a damning report on “late abortions and neonatal infanticides in Europe”. This report contains a series of testimonies from doctors, midwives and nurses who have witnessed lethal injections, suffocation and...
by Collectif | 6 Jul, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
Last week, American billionaire Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of Tesla and SpaceX, distributed the sum of 7 million dollars between 37 research teams to enable them to develop projects aimed at “avoiding” artificial intelligence “pitfalls”. Teams from prestigious...
by Collectif | 5 Jul, 2015 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
In the United States, it is estimated that over 500,000 frozen embryos “are not used by families wishing to participate in in-vitro fertilisation”. In France, activity reports have not been updated since 2010 and, based on a Biomedicine Agency audit, the registers...