by Alexis DUPORT | 2 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
According to the Health Authorities in British Columbia (Canada), “more organs are available for transplantation and some of these organs come from victims of drug overdose”. A state of emergency was declared in this region ten months ago...
by Alexis DUPORT | 1 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Technical advances do not always come with ethical ones… Danielle Moyse, philosopher and expert for Gènéthique, has noticed that with the arrival of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), eugenic techniques are getting more serious, while, on the other hand, disabled...
by Alexis DUPORT | 1 Mar, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
At a time when Europe is questioning the status given to robots, Emmanuel Brochier, professor of philosophy at the IPC in Paris, answers Gènéthique’s questions concerning relations between men and robots. Gènéthique: Paris took on an orchestra conductor...
by Alexis DUPORT | 28 Feb, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Since April 2015, CRISPR has been shaking the scientific community. This new tool that enables one to “edit the genome” opens the way to new gene therapy treatments, but also transhumanism. Brought together for several summits since 2015, international experts...
by Alexis DUPORT | 17 Feb, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
Conventional speech this morning at the national Assembly, each member perfectly playing his/her role. The outcome of the vote was clear all along. After the last intervention concerning this law, Catherne Coutelle, rapporteur of the social affairs Commission and...
by Alexis DUPORT | 16 Feb, 2017 | Gènéthique informs you
In less than two hours, the French Senate went over, for the second time, the writing of the new criminal offence concerning abortion proposed by the National Assembly. 171 voices against 147 allowed the left-wing senators and a couple of centrists to restore the...
