by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Abortion - Medical termination of Pregnancy(MTP)
Following a petition signed by 82,000 Dutch people, a law now allows parents who so wish to do so to apply for their stillborn child to be registered as a legal person in the government’s official databases. A woman asked for Yara, the child she had carried for...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Embryo research and alternatives
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) are one “of the most important tools in modern biomedical research”. To obtain them, an adult cell, for example a skin cell, has to be transformed into an undifferentiated cell. But current methods are long and...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
According to Matthew Bacchetta’s team at Columbia University, a new technique can apparently regenerate lungs considered too damaged to be transplanted, which represent 80% of the lungs removed from donors. Their study published in Nature Communications shows...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Organ donation
One year after his operation, Maurice Desjardins, the first Canadian to receive a face transplant, has recounted his experience. His entire face – nose, jaw, teeth, facial muscles and skin – was transplanted under the supervision of plastic surgeon Dr Daniel Borsuk at...
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | Transhumanism
The Dominican priest Eric Salobir has founded an NGO called Optic Technology. This is “a platform for interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue on the challenges of technology,” which seeks to “anticipate” the impact of technology on society....
by Henrianne DE PONTBRIAND | 20 May, 2019 | Bioethics press synthesis | MAP – Surrogacy
Andrew Dvash-Banks, an American, and Elad Dvash-Banks, an Israeli, live in Canada and married in 2010. In September 2016, a surrogate mother gave birth to twins Ethan and Aiden for them, who were conceived using an egg donor and two sperm samples from the two men. The...