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Genome

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: encouraging gene therapy trial in dogs

An article published on Tuesday in the Nature communications journal recounts the work of an international team of scientists [1] on Duchenne muscular dystrophy. They “succeeded in restoring muscular strength in dogs

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21 August 2017
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Embryo research and alternatives

United States: first genetically modified human embryos

The Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland has just announced the genetic editing of “a large number of human embryos at the single-cell stage”[1] using CRISPR, a tool that allows

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21 August 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

New York: woman gives birth to her first child conceived through post-mortem IVF

An American woman whose husband died two and a half years ago, gave birth to the couple’s first child, Angelina, on Tuesday.   In December 2014, her husband, a New

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21 August 2017
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Heart surgery performed in utero – healthy baby delivered

In Canada, Kristine Barry was twenty weeks pregnant when she learned that her baby had two serious congenital heart defects. The heart was not pumping adequately to ensure the healthy

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21 August 2017
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Embryo research and alternatives

iPS cells: the next Japanese clinical trial to treat severe heart disease

In Japan, a project led by Professor Yoshiki Sawa and colleagues at Osaka University, is aiming to use iPS cells in a clinical trial involving three patients suffering from ischemic

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21 August 2017
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Organ donation

Research focuses on a supple artificial heart made from silicone

Today, 26 million people around the world suffer from heart failure and donors are seldom found. An innovative artificial heart has been developed at the École polytechnique fédérale in Zurich (Swiss

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31 July 2017
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Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)

Abortion in Canada fuels anger in Bishops

A speech delivered in early June in the Commons Chamber in Ottawa, Canada, by Foreign Affairs Minister, Chrystia Freeland, has triggered a reaction from Monsignor Douglas Crosby, Bishop of Hamilton

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31 July 2017
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MAP – Surrogacy

Luxembourg: MAP/ Surrogacy – the Legal Committee reconsiders rights

On 12 July, members of the Luxembourg Legal Committee considered parenting rights based on draft law 6568.   The MPs focused priorities on protecting the superior right of the child,

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31 July 2017
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