by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Aug, 2010 | Gènéthique informs you
On 23rd August 2010, the judge Royce Lamberth of Washington federal court suspended by interim order the federal financing of the research on human embryonic stem cells. Prohibited by George W. Bush, this financing had been authorised by an order of Barack Obama on...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Aug, 2010 | Gènéthique informs you
Geron Corporation announced to have been authorised by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to carry on the first clinical trials on man with a line of human embryonic stem cells. It deals with a phase I trial on patients with lesions of spinal cord. The treatment,...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Aug, 2010 | Gènéthique informs you
The bioethics bill was presented on 31st August 2010 by the minister for Health Roselyne Bachelot. This text composed of about thirty articles will be presented at the Council of Ministers at the end of September 2010, and debated at the French National Assembly in...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jul, 2010 | Gènéthique informs you
While in a hospital context, the decisions for maintaining or interrupting life seem to define a threshold between the lives which would be worth living and those which would not be worth living, the book by Marie Gaille La valeur de la vie wants to question the moral...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jul, 2010 | Gènéthique informs you
“Even if everyone recognises as one of the foundations of the public life the respect of Human Rights expressed by the Universal Declaration, it is less obvious that all people agree about what the Man is.” It is the notification of the Academy of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2010 | Gènéthique informs you
After Bioéthique. Propos pour un dialogue and Bioéthique. Propos pour un discernement (Bioethics. Words for a dialogue and Bioethics. Words for a judgement), the working group of the Bishops’ Conference of France on Bioethics...