SPECIAL REPORTS
CRISPR: A patent jungles surrounding the ownership of the Cas9 system
The scientific merit of the gene-editing technique CRISPR pioneers (read our recent article HERE) has been overshadowed in recent years by a patent war that has not yet ended. CRISPR ownership main dispute between the Broad Institute at Harvard University and the University of California
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NEWS
Down people discrimination before birth in the UK
Down people discrimination, a sad feature of our developed societies. Basic human rights are not for them. Our observatory already published the risk of discrimination before the birth of this collective given the new Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) (read our article HERE). We feared that
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BRIEF NEWS
The Brazil case following the London patient. The third patient to have cleared HIV infections
A third patient from Sao Paulo - Brazil who seems to have cleared an HIV infection. The HIV virus appears to have disappeared from his
Less suicide by handguns in adolescents in some States. Teen suicide prevention in the US has hopeful news
Teen suicide prevention in the US has hopeful news In 2018, there were more than 48,000 suicides in the United States, particularly among adolescents. In
Laboratory experiments achieve the first step to manufacture skin that electronically responds to painful stimuli
A recent article published in the American journal Advanced Intelligent Systems entitled Artificial Somatosensors: Feedback Receptors for Electronic Skins reported that artificial skin that reacts to
Discover of the cells responsible for repairing the damage after heart attack
Last Friday Circulation Journal published an article with an international study of the Center for Applied Medical Research (Cima) and the University of Navarra Clinic
ABOUT US
The Catholic University of Valencia was founded on 8th of December 2003, the “youngest” of the Spanish Catholic universities. On 20th September 2006, the Institute of Life Sciences was constituted within the University itself, and within it, the Bioethics Observatory.
The Observatory has a website in Spanish that was created on Decembre 2007 (see HERE), and we are now starting a new chapter with our website in English, given the importance of this language in the field of bioethical research.
Our website includes “Special reports”, based on the latest biomedical and biotechnological research findings from the world’s top medical and scientific journals, such as the biological and anthropological status of the human embryo, matters regarding the end of life, especially euthanasia, assisted suicide and palliative care, and also some of the issues that are currently giving rise to major debates, including: assisted reproduction, surrogacy, use of contraceptives and the morning-after pill, transsexuality, genome editing, synthetic biology, production of human-animal chimeras for medical purposes and transhumanism.
Special Reports includes extensive reference material on these topics, which is constantly updated as new information becomes available. It is also a dynamic means of communication with our readers to reflect on these issues.
