Where Are We With the Bioethics Legislation in France Today?The latest bioethics law was adopted on 2nd August 2021. It is part of a legislative sequence dating back to 1994, the date of the first bioethics law. The 2021 law incorporates 7 major chapters (the...
Sickle cell anemia is the most widespread genetic disease in the world, and very prevalent in France where it affects one child for every 1900 births. The name of this disease is derived from the “sickle” shaped appearance of the red blood cells caused by a defect in...
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for the extraordinary discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 for genetic engineering. Two brilliant scientists, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a Frenchwoman and Jennifer Doudna, an American have been named to share the credit for...
The CRISPR-Cas9 genetic engineering technique is currently being tested on an adult patient with a rare form of blindness. The patient has a rare hereditary eye disease known as Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) which progressively leads to blindness, due to a gene...
In China, the scientist who produced genetically modified twin babies has been sentenced to three years in prison. In November 2018, the Chinese scientist He Jiankiu provoked shock and outrage around the world when he announced the birth of twin girls whose DNA he had...
Last November 2018, the CRISPR-Cas9 technique was first used in a human experiment which led to the birth of twin girls in China. Since then alarming information continues to spill out regarding the genetically modified babies born from this technique, who are...
