by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
On Monday, researchers at the University of Cambridge in Great Britain and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden warned against the risks of genome-editing technology currently being explored by scientists around the globe. It could inadvertently increase the risk of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Whether for or against abortion, 85% of Irish doctors believe that “medical abortion is not part of routine general practice”. To trivialise abortion by likening it “to the treatment of asthma, heart disease or diabetes” would “be full of...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 27 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
For Jacques Testart, transhumanism is “an infantile ideology that takes advantage of the extraordinary progress of technoscience over the last decade, to bring to light old, archaic myths about the super-intelligent, immortal, invincible human”. Facing Laurent...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 25 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
In France, “blood donors are not remunerated because the human body isn’t a commodity”, explains François Toujas, President of the Etablissement français du sang(French Blood Transfusion Agency). He refers to the ethical values of blood donation...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 25 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Genome
The use of CRISPR-Cas9—the genetic editing tool, triggers hundreds of random mutations throughout the genome. This was discovered by American scientists on carrying out research on a murine genome after modifying one of its genes using the CRISPR-Cas9 tool....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 25 Jun, 2018 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Forty-one years ago, Melissa Ohden survived an abortion. She grew up knowing that she had been born prematurely and had been adopted, but it was not until she reached the age of 14 that she learned the difficult circumstances surrounding her birth. During an argument...