by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Oct, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
In the perspective of the revision of the law of bioethics and of the Convention foreseen in 2009, the Minister for Health asked the Biomedicine Agency to draw up an inventory of the application of the law of 6th August 2004. In this report, the Agency made proposals...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Oct, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
In a report published on 4th November 2008 1, Marie-Thérèse Hermane (UMP senator) denounced, in the name of the Senate commission on Social Affairs, the French delay concerning the storage of cord blood (see Letter Gènéthique No 91). 20 years after the first global...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Sep, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
The question concerning the legalization of surrogate mothers is one of the crucial points of the revision of the coming bioethics laws. Gestational surrogacy Danielle Moyse, doctor in philosophy and associate researcher at the Centre d’étude des...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Sep, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
The 2007 annual report of the Agency of Biomedicine has just been issued and presents the conditions of the medically assisted procreation, on the eve of the revision of the bioethics law, in 2009. In 2006, the different techniques of medically assisted procreation...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Sep, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
State of the researches The 2007 report from the Agency of Biomedicine reminds that French teams have started research on human embryos from 2005, year of the first authorisations. At the end of the year 2007, 27 teams held an authorisation to research on...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Aug, 2008 | Gènéthique informs you
New statutory instruments Two decrees (completed with two orders) enabling registering the lifeless foetus with the registry of birth and the family record book and organising funerals (the foetus under 22 weeks were often incinerated with the operating room...