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End of life

156 MPs sign petition to press government on medically assisted dying

On 1 March, 156 MPs[1], mainly from the majority party, published a forum in Le Monde, on the initiative of Jean-Louis Touraine, LRM MP and former member of the socialist

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13 March 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Infertility: on the way to identifying how sperm moves?

Scientists at Gothenburg University in Sweden have identified a structure similar to a cork-screw at the end of the sperm flagellum.   In a study published in the Nature journal,

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13 March 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

China: man sentenced for abandoning frozen embryos

On 26 February, the Intermediate People’s Court of Nanjing in the Chinese province of Jangsu announced a Xuanwu court decision in favour of a woman in a case involving the

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13 March 2018
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At the end of life, some patients are less capable of making serious decisions than doctors think

End-stage cancer patients have to face difficult decisions: what treatment options should they choose to achieve their goals? When is it reasonable to stop treatment? A study published in The

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6 March 2018
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All other themes

Transgender breastfeeding: what happens to milk containing hormones?

After six years of sex reassignment therapy and 3 months of high-dose hormones, this transgender man was able to breast feed her partner’s baby for six weeks.    “This case

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6 March 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

Discovery of hormone promoting embryo implantation in the uterus

Scientists at Edinburgh University have found that the hormone DHEA plays a key role “at the start of pregnancy when a fertilised egg becomes attached to the lining of the

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6 March 2018
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Organ donation

United States: Creation of man-sheep chimera embryos

American scientists have just announced that they have created sheep embryos containing human cells. These chimera embryos have a research focus because they are a potential source of human organs

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6 March 2018
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MAP – Surrogacy

70 young adults born through gamete donation try to trace their origins

Following in the footsteps of Arthur Kermalvezen, a young man born through artificial insemination who found his biological father through a DNA test[1], 70 members of the PMAnonyme Association [2]

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6 March 2018
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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
    • Organ donation
    • Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
    • Prenatal diagnosis
    • Transhumanism
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  • About & legals
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