by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
Extermination of a human group? Does exist, in the world, people, ethnic or human group scorned and denied to the point that we could broadcast about it a documentary announcing that hundred million of its members have been eliminated, without arousing...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Jan, 2007 | Gènéthique informs you
A poll, made in 2002 in six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Suede and Suisse) studied near-death medical practices1. Today, while death occurs most of the time in institution, after a long-term disease, what is the practice of health...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Dec, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
While some people, although they are disappointed by the limits of embryonic stem cells, persist in asking for the legalisation of cloning, the research on adult stem cells still progresses. Amniotic Liquid Pr de Coppi and Atala (Institute for...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Dec, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
Deputy Alain Claeys presented on 6 December 2006 the report from the parliamentary office for evaluation of scientific and technological options: “Researches on the functioning of living cells”. This report is an introduction to the public debate for the revision...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Dec, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
The decree relative to the use of preimplantation diagnosis (PGD) to intend to give life to a “designer baby” was published on 23 December 2006. The Biomedicine Agency is in charge of supervising this practice, authorised since the bioethics law of august 2004, and...
by Alexis DUPORT | 31 Oct, 2006 | Gènéthique informs you
An exceptional progress Pr McGuckin’s and Dr Forraz’s team (University of Newcastle) achieved to create a model of tiny liver from stem cells taken from umbilical cord blood. Umbilical cord blood is taken after the delivery without danger neither for the mother...