by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
The cost of MAP The Medically Assisted Procreation is expensive. In 2004, according to the last figures from the Biomedicine Agency, 113,000 attempted MAP have been registered in France and 17,791 children are born thanks to theses techniques. But then, each...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Source of pluripotent cells Cord blood, present in the umbilical cord which connects the baby to the placenta, can be sampled after birth, without constraints either for the baby or for the mother. More than hundred million babies are born every year in the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Child conceived: cause of divorce The Court of Appeal of Nîmes1 has just pronounced a divorce for reciprocal fault, retaining a fault of the wife to have conceived a child without her husband’s knowledge, father of the child: “Based on the current status of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Jun, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Insulin with cord blood According to a study carried out by Pr Colin McGuckin (Newcastle Center for Cord Blood, Newcastle University) and Pr Larry Denner’s teams (Stark Diabete Center, University of Texas Medical Branch), it is possible to create...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 May, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
A revolutionary discovery A Japanese researcher team (Pr Shinya Yamanaka, University of Kyoto) and two American researcher teams (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Harvard Stem Cell Institute of Boston) succeeded in...
by Alexis DUPORT | 1 May, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
On 18 April 2007, the United States Supreme Court upheld, by 5 votes to 4, the law banning partial-birth abortion throughout the United States (Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act), federal law adopted in October 2003 by both chambers of Congress and signed into law by...