“Palmade scandal”: The impeded mourning for the stillborn child Twenty-one months after causing a serious road traffic accident, whilst under the influence of narcotics, which in particular resulted in a pregnant woman losing her child six months into her pregnancy,...
The ECHR (European Court of Human Rights) has issued a judgement on the sensitive issue of post mortem assisted reproduction and the export of gametes or embryos. The facts Two recently widowed women, have lodged an appeal with the ECHR concerning the prohibition in...
What are we actually talking about ? "Synthetic embryos", "embryoids", "synthetic human embryos", "imitation embryos", "embryo models", "embryos derived from stem cells", "laboratory copy of human embryos", "blastoids" etc. these are the convoluted designations which...
A recent editorial in the journal Nature has highlighted the alarming rise of complex genetic testing for selecting human embryos in vitro. The emergence of companies offering prospective parents tests based on a "polygenic risk embryo score" prior to in...
A California couple recently filed suit against the IVF clinic for switching their embryo for another prior to implantation. Here is what this most affected family went through. According to the New York Times, the clinic switched their embryo with another couple’s...
On March 3, 2020, the French National Consultative Committee on Ethics (“CCNE”) published the "Ethical Challenges of Gene Editing: Between Hope and Caution". The members had unanimously adopted these recommendations on September 19, 2019. This statement referred to as...
Although the final version of the bioethics law has yet to be voted in France, the Senate recently removed the article which bans the creation of transgenic embryos. The international pressure is growing; consequently, on March 3, 2020, ethics councils in 3 countries...
Excerpts from the hearing at the French Senate, pronounced by Alliance VITA’s Director of Training and Research, Blanche Streb, regarding the bioethics bill: It is no longer rational to consider the human embryo on two separate levels: either for procreation or for...
