by Alexis DUPORT | 25 Apr, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
“Genetic revolution”, “biotechnological tsunami”, “fantastic tool”: the discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, the new genetic tool, brings both hope and concern, and, for over a year now, has given rise to much debate. At the beginning of it all, the publication of two...
by Alexis DUPORT | 22 Feb, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
After having been sent away by the European commission in 2014, the greatest European Citizen Initiative (ECI), One of US, is currently inviting legal, health and political experts from all over Europe to sign a petition calling upon a key debate aiming at restricting...
by Alexis DUPORT | 8 Feb, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
CRISPR-Cas9 “can now reprogram a genome in one week instead of a few months”. Obtained from “a natural defence mechanism present in bacteria,” this tool “can trigger mutations, insert or remove genes and even inhibit their expression” in all cell...
by Alexis DUPORT | 4 Feb, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
When given the floor, during one of the last conferences of the European forum of bioethics, Jean-François Mattei, speaking on the theme “Does medicine lead to transhumanism?” starts off by saying that “medicine no longer leads to reparation but to augmentation”....
by Alexis DUPORT | 25 Jan, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
Chinese research announcements often trigger heated debates as evidenced with the recent reports by Xu Xiaochun, scientist and Chinese entrepreneur, who wants to build “the world’s biggest commercial animal cloning centre”, and the Sun Ya Tsen University Laboratory in...
by Alexis DUPORT | 19 Jan, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
In Belgium, the words of Monseigneur de Kesel, archbishop of Malines-Brussels, concerning conscientious objection in Belgian hospitals, caused a lot of controversy. Very quickly, they were relayed by the announcement of the refusal by a catholic rest home to accept...
