by Collectif | 10 Jul, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
The Mayor of Warsaw has just decided to sack the director of a public hospital for refusing to carry out an abortion. The mother requested an abortion because of a foetal deformity. A spokesperson for the mayor commented as follows: “the right to...
by Collectif | 10 Jul, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
The reprogramming of bone marrow cells to stimulate the hearts of subjects with heart failure could soon benefit many patients. At the start of the year, like the European authorities, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA)* gave its consent for a phase III clinical...
by Collectif | 10 Jul, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | All other themes
An American start-up company, MicroCHIPS, has just developed a subcutaneous contraceptive microchip. The technology was developed in the 1990s by an engineer – Professor Robert Langer. In 2012, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, suggested applying the technology...
by Collectif | 9 Jul, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
A team from the Tissue Bio-Engineering Laboratory in Bordeaux “has just succeeded in printing skin fragments from different types of human cells cultivated in vitro”, which could lead to the printing of skin directly on to major burns victims. The...
by Collectif | 8 Jul, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
A team of Strasbourg scientists have developed a prototype for a bio-artificial pancreas after 20 years of research. Clinical trials will begin at the end of 2015 or early 2016 in Montpellier and Oxford (United Kingdom) for results expected in 2017. This project is...
by Collectif | 7 Jul, 2014 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
A study conducted by a so-called “therapeutic” cloning sponsor (Gènéthique press review of May 5th, 2014), published in Nature, compares human pluripotent stem cells and concludes that stem cells created by cloning are superior to the widely...