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Embryo research and alternatives

iPS cells, source of pneumocytes

A team of scientists at the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the Boston School of Medicine has succeeded in obtaining functional type II pneumocytes [1] from induced pluripotent stem cells

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17 October 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

Financing the preservation of gametes harvested from transgender adolescents: the NHS in the spotlight

NHS[1] clinics are allowing dozens of transgender adolescents to freeze their sperm or preserve their eggs to enable them to have a child following a sex change.   Some boys,

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13 October 2017
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Genome

United Kingdom has a plant to create “risk-free” genetically modified mosquitoes

In the United Kingdom, the biotechnology company, Oxitec, a subsidiary of British company, Intrexon, “is constructing a huge plant“. The aim of this new facility costing €8.2 million, is to

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13 October 2017
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

United States: heading towards banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy?

The United States House of Representatives “passed a bill on Tuesday to punish doctors performing abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy“. It carries a prison sentence of up to

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13 October 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

United States: the Supreme Court will not hear the case of surrogate mother, Melissa Cook

Melissa Cook, surrogate mother who hit the headlines in 2015, presented her case to the Supreme Court: pregnant with triplets following a surrogacy agreement in California, the intended father asked

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12 October 2017
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Prenatal diagnosis

Genetic tests and pre-natal screening: patients’ reactions challenge the predictions of scientists

For thirty years, predictive genetic tests (“capable of informing a healthy person at the time of the test whether or not he/she will become ill“) have been offered to children

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12 October 2017
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Pope Francis: humans are not just “an aggregate of cells, well-organised and selected through the course of life”

 “The power of biotechnologies, which now permit manipulations of life that were unthinkable until now, poses formidable questions,” emphasised the Pope in his opening address at the XXIIIth General Assembly

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12 October 2017
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Euthanasia: the Vatican is offering the Belgian Brothers of Charity Organisation “one last chance”

Brother René Stockman, Superior General of the Brothers of Charity met with the Vatican’s competent authorities “about the current decision concerning the practice of euthanasia in the establishments of the

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10 October 2017
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Bioethics News - News and insight on bioethics today

News and insight on bioethics today

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    • End of life
    • Genome
    • GMO
    • MAP / surrogacy
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    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
    • Transhumanism
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