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Conscientious objection

Donald Trump defends the right of conscientious objection for all health care workers

“Just today we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students and faith-based charities”,Trump told an interfaith audience in the White House Rose Garden. The objective

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13 May 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

An American arrested for surrogacy scam

A federal criminal complaint has been filed against 37-year-old Grégory Blosser, from Florida, in connection with his business activities as head of company TSG, The Surrogacy Group, which he had

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13 May 2019
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Embryo research and alternatives

Pig-human chimeras: a clinical trial announced in Japan

The researcher Hiromitsu Nakauchi has announced that an experiment is starting in Japan to culture a human pancreas in pigs. This statement comes as Japan has just relaxed its legislation

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13 May 2019
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An autonomous surgical robot in a beating heart

The latest innovation by researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital is an autonomous robot navigating through pig hearts. This autonomous catheter can move by itself in a beating heart: it is

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13 May 2019
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Organ donation

Towards new regenerative therapies to create in-vivo blood vessels?

Faced with the permanent shortage of organ donors, researchers are looking into alternatives. 3D-bioprinting “to build fully functional organs outside the body” has already begun to prove its worth: for

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13 May 2019
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MAP – Surrogacy

Egg freezing to compensate for Scotland’s falling birth rate?

In response to declining fertility rates in Scotland, the Conservatives have asked the government to consider “freezing oocytes” [1] for all women in Scotland. “Such opportunities are important and are

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13 May 2019
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Organ donation

The United Kingdom: presumed consent to organ donation will not apply to genitals

The United Kingdom has recently adopted the presumed consent system for organ donation (see  United Kingdom and Scotland introduce presumed consent to organ donation). The new law will come into

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13 May 2019
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GMO

Using CRISPR-Cas9 on cassava in Australia leads to the spread of mutated viruses

To make cassava plants resistant to ‘mosaic virus’, which can cause almost total loss of these plants in an epidemic, Australian researchers tried to “recombine the virus’s DNA” by genome

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

News and insight on bioethics today

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    • Bioethics law
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    • Conscientious objection
    • Embryo research and alternatives
    • End of life
    • Genome
    • GMO
    • MAP / surrogacy
    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
    • Transhumanism
  • Contact
  • About & legals
  • Cookie policy (EU)
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