by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2011 | Gènéthique informs you
In an open letter published on 28th April 2011 in the magazine Nature, 13 European scientists working on human embryonic stem cells (CESh) have expressed their concern about a possible prohibition, at European level, of the patentability of innovations using CESh. On...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2011 | Gènéthique informs you
The “contraception pass” invades the French high schools region after region. Launched on 26th April 2011 by the chairman of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France Jean-Paul Huchon (PS), this plan which aims at facilitating the access to the contraception...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Apr, 2011 | Gènéthique informs you
On 15th May 2011, the inhabitants of the canton of Zurich have been invited to vote, within the framework of a popular consultation on the assistance to suicide and the “tourism of death”. In Switzerland, the incitement and the assistance to suicide are...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Mar, 2011 | Gènéthique informs you
The bill on bioethics has been examined by the French Senate Committee on Social Affairs on 29th and 30th March 2011 before to be discussed in session on 5th to 8th April 2011. This second parliamentary reading – after the first one in the National Assembly – was the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2011 | Gènéthique informs you
During the vote of the bill on bioethics in the National Assembly, MPs have adopted an amendment – the amendment 70 – which modifies the article 9, paragraph 4 regarding prenatal diagnosis (PND). This amendment expresses a desire to avoid the systematisation of the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2011 | Gènéthique informs you
On last 9th March, the National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE) published an opinion in which it pronounces in favour of post-mortem1 embryo transfer. This opinion came to consolidate the vote of MPs who have, on last 15th February, within the framework of the...
