by Alexis DUPORT | 30 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
With over 1.7 million signatures, the One of Us European Citizen Initiative (ECI) brought together the largest number of signatures in the history of Europe. But in 2014, the European Commission refused to hand in the legislative proposition produced by the ECI to the...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Unsurprisingly, the French High Authority for Health (HAS) [1] recommends including non-invasive testing for Down Syndrome in the French testing policy[2] For the occasion the HAS has given it a new barbaric name: “Test ADN libre circulant dans le sang maternel pour...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Though the report from the French High Authority of Health is yet to be published, a decree from last May 7th has included Non-Invasive prenatal diagnosis in the list of prenatal diagnosis examinations. End of April, a first piece of information comes through:...
by Alexis DUPORT | 16 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Sordid. An Australian website, Baby Bee, offers women to make jewellery from their maternal milk, placenta, umbilical cord stem cells, from the ashes of a loved one, but also from supernumerary human embryos obtained from in vitro fertilization (IVF). A new market...
by Alexis DUPORT | 16 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Published in the official journal of May 7th 2017, a decree signed on May 5th 2017 has just included NIPT in the list of authorized prenatal diagnosis tests, just a few days before the end of the presidential mandate. Requiring only a simple blood test, NIPT is a test...
by Alexis DUPORT | 2 May, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
As the French president’s mandate is coming to its end, it makes sense to do a bioethics stocktaking[1]. Jean Marie Le Méné, President of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation speaks of the broad patterns that have emerged from François Hollande’s mandate. Gènéthique:...