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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 114 - March 2023
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The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has published a series of online videos explaining how to use abortion pills at home in pregnancies up to 13 weeks gestation. These videos were created by the NGO Doctors Without Borders and by HowToUseAbortionPill.org in 2021. IPPF is a global non-governmental organization whose general objectives are the promotion of sexual and reproductive health, …
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On January 13, the prestigious journal Science, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published an article by researchers from the Universities of Texas (U.S.A.) and Regensburg (Germany), led by Prof. Eric Olson, in which they described the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to reduce the damage caused by the phenomenon known as ischemia-reperfusion, concluding that it could …
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Pope Benedict XVI's homily at Regensburg On 12 September 2006, on the occasion of a Eucharistic Celebration in Regensburg (Germany), Pope Benedict XVI gave a beautiful and thought-provoking homily that we would like to comment on, as a simple homage, focusing on the question that the Pope posed and to which he gave an answer: is it reasonable to believe …
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Replicating the way in which the stars and our sun produce energy is a goal that has been pursued for 70 years, but which has proven elusive to the scientific capabilities and efforts of humanity. It consists of obtaining unlimited clean energy that would drastically change the way we live. The question is whether this …
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The human body is in constant relationship with the outside world. Through different systems, it establishes a continuous communication to maintain balance, development and protection against possible external aggressions of the organism. One of them is the immune system, which constantly analyzes the presence of foreign agents in the body in order to eliminate them, but in the case of …
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In line with the news that we learned in 2022 about the death by euthanasia of the young Belgian girl Shanti DeConte, who survived the attacks at the Brussels airport but fell into depression, we make our bioethical reflection on this unacceptable practice. The young woman, only 23 years old, was euthanized on May 7, 2022 and died accompanied by …
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On February 1, 2023, the French Senate approved an amendment to its Constitution by 166 votes in favor and 152 votes against to include access to abortion. This occurs after having rejected the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution in October 2022 with 139 votes in favor and 172 against. The original amendment proposal to the French Constitution that was …
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