by Collectif | 2 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Last August, the whole world learned that an Australian couple who had commissioned a Thai surrogate mother, abandoned the Down syndrome baby, Gammy, taking only his “healthy” twin sister. (Gènéthqiue press review on August 4th, 2014). On this occasion, an...
by Collectif | 1 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
American geneticist, Craig Venter will be embarking on his project entitled, “Discovering the secret of a long life” in January 2015. He revealed his ambition in an interview with Le Monde. His company, Human Longevity, Inc., is currently recruiting...
by Collectif | 1 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
After the “abortion boats”, Rebecca Gomperts from the Netherlands is offering an unusual on-line service – she is making drug-induced abortions available to women living in countries where abortion is illegal or restricted. So, for the sum of €90, Women...
by Collectif | 1 Sep, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
Swisstransplant, the Swiss national foundation for organ donation and transplantation in conjunction with Dr. Jocelyn Corniche – anaesthetist at CHUV (Vaudois University Hospital Centre in Switzerland) and REGA (Swiss Air Rescue Service) – have just launched the...
by Collectif | 31 Aug, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | End of life
In the Netherlands where euthanasia has been legal since 2002, one clinic, Levenseindekliniek, – the end-of-life clinic – is about to be investigated for the second time in four months. In the most recent case, the clinic helped an elderly woman to die...
by Collectif | 28 Aug, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Each cell exists in duplicate in a human being: one transmitted by the father and the other by the mother. The parental imprint is a “mechanism via which some genetic sequences remain silent, i.e. are not expressed, depending on whether they come from the mother...