by Collectif | 26 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Germany, with effect from November 2014, a draft law devised by Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat party to ban organised assisted suicide, will be put to the vote in the German Parliament. Currently, based on a legal loophole, two organisations, namely the...
by Collectif | 26 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In Scotland, the Parliamentary Justice Committee is preparing to debate a draft law that would legalise assisted suicide from the age of 16 for the terminally ill or those suffering from serious diseases with only a short life expectancy. In order to block this draft...
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
On Friday, Australian surgeons at the Saint-Vincent Hospital in Sydney and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute announced that they had succeeded, in a world first, in transplanting hearts that were no longer beating. To date, doctors have used hearts that are...
by Collectif | 23 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
According to the Daily Mail newspaper, a British couple managed to have a baby after 15 years by using a new in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) technique: “embryoglu” or “colle embryonnaire” in French. Developed by a specialist English clinic,...
by Collectif | 22 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
According to a study published in the British journal entitled Scientific Report, a team of Japanese scientists has succeeded in obtaining cardiac tissue membranes from induced pluripotent stem cells. According to the team of scientists, this is the first time that...
by Collectif | 22 Oct, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
During the last annual congress of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in San Diego, geneticists presented the results of a study according to which “the ageing-related loss of chromosome Y […] is associated with an increased risk of...