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The end of hybrids in Great Britain?
The British newspaper The Independent announced on 5th October 2009 that the 3 research projects involving the creation of hybrid from now on embryos are abandoned. Not renewed licenses In Great Britain, the conception of part human, part animal...
Parkinson: a gene triple therapy
A new therapeutic perspective maybe opens for the patients with Parkinson’s disease. A gene triple therapy, established by teams of Bachir Jaraya and Stéphane Palfi, neurosurgeons at the Hospital Henri Mondor and CEA/Inserm researchers, allowed to 18 macaques with...
Going back over the authorisation of the saviour child
In a report published on 6th May 2009, the Council of State advocates a possible review on the legislation which governs the saviour child procedure or "double PGD": "The questions raised by the ‘double PGD’ and the fact that it was not so much used could justify that...
The consciousness objection of pharmacists
Whereas Italia has just authorised the delivery of RU 486, Benedict XVI, on the occasion of the World Congress of physician international federation held in Poznan (Poland), called the pharmacists to put forward the clause of consciousness against the sale of products...
Embryonic stem cells and iPS cells: time to draw up the balance?
Embryos: first clinical trial Geron Corporation, the leader company in research on embryonic stem cells, had to test this summer the GRNOPC1, an embryonic stem cell–based product to treat spinal cord lesions, on 8 to 10 patients who recently developed...
Caritas in veritate: bioethics, a crucial challenge of the integral human development
The encyclical Caritas in veritate, in the tradition of the Social Doctrine of the Church, invites us straightaway to gain height by proposing “love in truth” as a key for the integral human development. If this document is in line with the doctrine constituted...
The human and the person – F.- X. Putallaz and B. N. Schumacher
Common borders The history of peoples teaches us that the stability of a society is based in part on its capacity to establish the borders on the good places, borders capable to accompany by their stability the flows which model the culture and the people and...
Report of the Estates General on bioethics
The Estates General on bioethics finished on 23rd June 2009. The government wanted that this public debate promotes "the educated and informed thinking of most people on questions which commit our common future" in prevision of the revision of bioethics laws in...
Gametes: Where to stop?
The Court of New York has jus authorised a woman to collect the sperm of her dead boyfriend. Another American court, the one of Travis County, authorised a mother, Missy Evans, to preserve the sperm of her son Nikolas, killed on 5th April 2009 in a street fight....
Eugenics of spermatic decontamination, Grégory Katz
When the embryonic selection allows selecting the embryos to implant, Grégory Katz 1 notes the emergence of germinal eugenics. "The birth control here would be placed before the embryonic selection, at the level of the gametogenesis, thus getting round the bioethical...
Corps en miettes (Body into pieces) – Sylviane Agacinski
“The wounded aspirations cannot be cured by all means”. This is this conviction which presents the last book by Sylviane Agacinski 1 called Corps en miettes (Body into pieces). When in the occasion of the revision of the bioethics law, press Medias emphasizes the...
Scientific studies on iPS cells
One of the forums of the Estates General on Bioethics dealt with the research on the embryo, against the backdrop of this question: has the law of 2004 to be kept as it is? The law of 2004 bans the research on embryo but authorises it by derogation for two conditions:...