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Genetic Testing: DNA Kit Sales Skyrocketing

15 Feb 2019 | Bioethics

The American scientific magazine MIT Review, from the renowned University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology has just published a report estimating that more than 26 million people have already used these kits to have their DNA tested. If this growth trend continues, the companies selling these kits will have the “genetic fingerprints” of more […]

Alliance VITA’s 4th session of Bioethics Conference 2019: « What is the Value of a Human Life?”

07 Feb 2019 | Bioethics

For the fourth and closing evening of the Bioethics Conference organized by Alliance VITA this year, the theme addressed was “Life, Under Pressure?” The conference was opened by the philosopher and mathematician, Oliver Rey, author of “Transhumanism: Illusion and Deception” (published by Desclée de Brouwer, 2018) who spoke of the difficulties men have to adapt […]