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Is the Australian Ethics Committee ready to authorise gender selection?
Given the extent of procreative tourism which is driving more and more Australian couples abroad to “choose the gender of their child conceived by in-vitro fertilisation”, the Ethics Committee is contemplating authorising this option in Australia. It is already...
Italy: the “Egg-sharing” campaign to confront the “Oocyte crisis”
Italy is launching an “Egg Sharing” campaign “to convince Italian women to donate a few oocytes for infertile couples”. The women targeted in particular by this campaign are “those on the homologous fertilisationlist [1]”. These women who have “already been...
Guardianship judge receives request to make Vincent Lambert a ward of court
Further to the announcement at the end of July by Doctor Daniela Simon, a Guardianship Judge at the Court of Reims this week received a request to make Vincent Lambert a ward of court. The Public Prosecutor in Reims confirmed: “Doctor Simon has told me she...
Decision of the ECHR: « Human embryos cannot be reduced to goods”
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has just made public its decision concerning the case of Parrillo versus Italy: with 16 voices to ones, the judges refused Mrs Parrillo’s request. The women had frozen embryos that had been made during an...
China plans legislation for clinical trials involving stem cells
The Chinese Government wishes to regulate private clinics proposing stem cell treatments[1], the efficacy of which has not been proven. To this end, on 21 August 2015, it announced research legislation governing stem cell research. Some scientists are delighted at the...
Discovery of the carcinogenic role of a virus used in gene therapy
On 24 August, the Nature Genetics Journal published a study revealing the carcinogenic role of the type 2 adenovirus (AAV2), considered up until this point as non-pathogenic and frequently used as a carrier in numerous gene therapy studies. The publication...
United-States: 300 demonstrations protesting against the practices of the American Family planning association
USA Today has revealed that approximately 300 demonstrations took place in America on Saturday, 22 August, protesting against the trafficking of organs removed from aborted foetuses by the American branch of the Family Planning Association. The practice of...
Ohio: Down Syndrome no longer justifies abortion
In the State of Ohio, a draft law is currently being reviewed by Governor John Kasich. This bill recommends banning abortion in cases of Down Syndrome. “We would all have liked to have been born perfect but none of us is. Perfect or not, everyone has a...
Planned Parenthood: a new shock video fuels the fire
On 19 August, the Center for Medical Progress Association put a seventh video online, shedding further light on the illegal and extremely shocking practices of the American Family Planning Association concerning the trafficking of organs taken from aborted foetuses....
Ohio State University: creation of a human brain from skin cells
Scientists at Ohio State University have succeeded in creating a human brain almost entirely from human skin cells.Project Manager, Rene Anand, presented his study on 18 August at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This tiny brain – the size of that of a 5 week-old fœtus is...
Planned Parenthood scandal: scandal followed by isolation
Ever since the Center for Medical Progress revealed the trafficking of human organs taken from aborted foetuses by the American Family Planning Association, the latter has been abandoned by some of its most influential partners. Recently, the StemExpress...
An analgesic product based on genetically modified yeast
A study published in the American Science Journal on Thursday 13 August revealed that a team of scientists at Stanford University, California, has succeeded in producing an opioid analgesic by genetically modifying baker’s yeast. This study describes how the...