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Research on embryo: rejecting the resort to ABM and appeal
On 14th October 2010, the administrative court of Paris rejected the resort en illegality introduced in 2008 by the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation against the Agency of Biomedicine (ABM) within the framework of an authorisation of research on human embryonic stem cells....
MAP: what are the psychological effects on the couple?
In the occasion of the revision of the law of bioethics, Le Quotidien du Médecin opened its newspaper to Dr Sylvie Epelboin, gynaecologist co-responsible of the centre of medical assistance to procreation (MAP) of the hospital Bichat-Claude-Bernard of Paris, so that...
Revision of the laws of bioethics: presentation of the bill
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...
Geron: first clinical trial with human embryonic stem cells
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,...
Research on the embryo in USA: Illegal federal financing?
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...
Qu’est-ce que l’homme ? – Collectif
"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 education and social...
La valeur de la vie (the value of life) – Marie Gaille
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...
Report of the OPECST: for research on the embryo, cloning, and hybrids
On July, 7th 2010, the French Parliamentary office for scientific and technological assessment (OPECST) published its report on the research on stem cells. Written by the MPs Alain Claeys and Jean-Sébastien Vialatte within the framework of the revisions of Bioethics...
Pavillon 7 – Antoine Beauquier
When the official reports follow on, which measure, weight up, assess our rights and duties in relation to the human embryo, a lot of questions are posed, but a few answers are given. As if this succession of reports from the Agency of Biomedicine, the OPECST...
Dignity and vulnerability – Bishops’ Conference of France
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 published Au...
Synthia Molecule: did man create life?
“Scientists have created the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome”, announced the journal Science on 21st May 2010. The manufacture, by the team of the American biologist Craig Venter, of Synthia molecule, the first living cell whose genome has been conceived...
MAP and malformation risks: a French study
An important French study on the increased risks of malformations in children conceived by medically assisted procreation (MAP) was made public on 14th June 2010, at the European Congress of human genetics which took place in Goteborg, Sweden. Managed on AMP vigilance...