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Génétiquement incorrect (genetically incorrect) follows the interview granted by Didier Sicard, chairman of the National Consultative Ethics Committee, on last 5 February, to the daily newspaper Le Monde. He denounced the generalisation of prenatal screening (DPN) and...

Pluripotent adult stem cells   Two research teams – one Japanese, directed by Shinya Yamanaka, from the University of Kyoto, and the other one, American, directed by James Thompson, from the university of Wisconsin-Madison  – announced to have succeeded in...

After the adoption of the law relative to immigration which authorises the recourse to DNA tests for the candidates wanting to join their family, the mass media dedicated a number of files to the temptation of the genetic “all” and to the financial stakes of these...

Within this period of the year, you are a number to ask questions about the ethical scope of certain scientific choice of the AFM. This is a short reminder of lasts facts.   September 2007: inauguration of the Institute of human embryonic stem cells, I-STEM...

Extended Preimplantation Diagnosis   For the first time, the resort to preimplantation diagnosis (PGD) has just been authorised by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to select an embryo free from genes predisposing to breast and ovarian cancer. This...

British authorisation   In May 2007, British government authorised the creation of “man-animal” hybrid embryos (see Gènéthique No 89, May 2007). The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has just accepted that some research laboratories produce these...

The disrupted reproduction   Before, all seemed to be simple: reproduction was the result of sexuality and the foetus developed in the mysterious maternal womb. Breaking with age-old unknown and fatalism, today, foetal medicine allows knowing all the details...

A disaster! We want to give “rights” to animals, as Human rights! Why? Dealing with this issue, the authors, a philosopher and a journalist, deeply wonder about the difference between humans and animals. What they discovered upsets our ideas and raises the alarm for...

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...

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...

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...

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...