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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

The law in the Netherlands authorizes stillborn and aborted children to be registered

Following a petition signed by 82,000 Dutch people, a law now allows parents who so wish to do so to apply for their stillborn child to be registered as a

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20 May 2019
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Embryo research and alternatives

A new method to generate iPS cells more efficiently

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) are one “of the most important tools in modern biomedical research”. To obtain them, an adult cell, for example a skin cell, has to be

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20 May 2019
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Organ donation

Regenerating lungs too damaged to be transplanted?

According to Matthew Bacchetta’s team at Columbia University, a new technique can apparently regenerate lungs considered too damaged to be transplanted, which represent 80% of the lungs removed from donors.

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20 May 2019
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Organ donation

Taking stock one year after the first face transplant in Canada

One year after his operation, Maurice Desjardins, the first Canadian to receive a face transplant, has recounted his experience. His entire face – nose, jaw, teeth, facial muscles and skin

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20 May 2019
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Transhumanism

Optic Technology, an NGO for the ethical development of technology

The Dominican priest Eric Salobir has founded an NGO called Optic Technology. This is “a platform for interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue on the challenges of technology,” which seeks to “anticipate”

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20 May 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Surrogacy: twins born of different fathers and therefore with different nationalities?

Andrew Dvash-Banks, an American, and Elad Dvash-Banks, an Israeli, live in Canada and married in 2010. In September 2016, a surrogate mother gave birth to twins Ethan and Aiden for

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20 May 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

A constitutional “right to abortion” in Kansas?

Last Friday, the highest court in Kansas deduced a “right to abortion” from the State Constitution According to the court, the “equal and inalienable rights” proclaimed in the Bill of Rights

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13 May 2019
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

U.S.: Alabama criminalizes abortion, Oklahoma forced to extend its time limits for medical abortion

Alabama’s House of Representatives voted 74 to 3 on Tuesday to pass a bill that would make abortion a Class A felony, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 99

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13 May 2019
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Cloning
    • Conscientious objection
    • Embryo research and alternatives
    • End of life
    • Genome
    • GMO
    • MAP / surrogacy
    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
    • Transhumanism
  • Contact
  • About & legals
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