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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Chile decriminalises abortion in certain cases

On 21 August 2017, Chile’s Constitutional Court validated the law decriminalising abortion in the case of rape, when the mother’s life is in danger and in the event of a

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12 September 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

Three-parent IVF: John Zhang singled out by the FDA

On 4 August, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) instructed “fertility doctor”, John Zhang, to stop marketing three-parent IVF [1] [2]. He was involved in the birth of a Jordanian child through three-parent IVF

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11 September 2017
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Embryo research and alternatives

A medicinal product discovered thanks to iPS cells

Scientists at Kyoto University should start the first clinical trial in the autumn, testing out a medicinal product identified using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) to treat a rare bone

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11 September 2017
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Embryo research and alternatives

Genetically modified embryos: details of the American study are published

As announced at the end of July, the work of the American-Sino-Korean team were published in the  Nature journal on 2 August (see United States: first genetically modified human embryos). Their work is

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11 September 2017
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Gene Drive: one step further towards irresponsibility

CRISPR tools have caused gene drive technology to resurface: it consists in stimulating the transmission of certain genes from one generation to the next, in order to affect noxious populations.

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5 September 2017
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End of life

Charlie Gard: “The opportunity [for treatment] was lost”

On Monday, 24 June, the parents of 11 month-old Charlie Gard, who is suffering from a rare genetic disorder, announced the end of their legal battle to keep their child

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21 August 2017
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The Netherlands Antilles: 15 million genetically modified mosquitoes soon to be released

On 6 July in the Netherlands, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment was authorised to release 15 million transgenic mosquitoes. They will be released over a period

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21 August 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

Over the last 40 years – a disturbing decrease in the quality of sperm in the western world

A study carried out by an international team and published in the Human Reproduction Update journal on 25 July shows that sperm levels in men in western countries (America, Europe, Australia and

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21 August 2017
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