by Alexis DUPORT | 11 Jan, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
International Stem Cell Corporation has just announced the launching of a clinical trial in Australia to assess the effectiveness of a treatment based on human parthenogenetic stem cells for Parkinson’s disease [1]. It is a disease that affects around seven million...
by Alexis DUPORT | 5 Jan, 2016 | Gènéthique informs you
In order to obtain the right from the Law to develop gestational surrogacy legally, the companies invested in the market of human material have deployed a judicial sophistry: the expected answer is slipped in the question and, thus, closes the debate. The offensive is...
by Alexis DUPORT | 17 Dec, 2015 | Gènéthique informs you
Whereas the European Council Parliamentary Assembly is re-examining a case of “selling a child through surrogacy” (case of Paradiso et Campanelli v. Italy), Members of the European Parliament have just condemned “surrogacy which contravenes the human dignity of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 8 Dec, 2015 | Gènéthique informs you
How many things have been justified in the name of dignity! Brandished by the defenders of euthanasia as well as by its opponents, the argument forces itself in and too often puts an end to the discussion. This being said, what does dignity really mean? Marianne...
by Alexis DUPORT | 8 Dec, 2015 | Gènéthique informs you
Gaspard is a 2-year-old little boy. He is suffering from the genetic neurodegenerative Sandhoff disease, which is gradually killing him. For Généthique, his mother Marie-Axelle, tells us of the way she accompanies him by preserving his consciousness of existing and of...
by Alexis DUPORT | 30 Nov, 2015 | Gènéthique informs you
For the conference on climate change, the Family Planning Federation published a press release asking for the “rights of women”, and particularly the “sexual and reproductive rights”, to be placed at the “centre of negotiations”. It sees this as “a major issue for the...