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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 117 - June 2023
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Since the clinical advent of in vitro fertilization in the early 1980s, a wide range of ethical considerations and concerns regarding artificial womb technology (AWT) have been described. Recent advances in the development of extracorporeal neonatal life support through AWT have reignited ethical interest in this issue with a sense of urgency. An article in the prestigious American Journal of …
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World Athletics Federation banned trans women from competing in women's competitions on March 31, 2023, thus excluding transgender athletes who had passed male puberty before participating in women's competitions in the world rankings. Regarding DSD (Disorders of Sex Development) athletes, the new regulation establishes that they have to reduce their testosterone level below 2.5 nml/L for a minimum period of …
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The Human Brain Project is born It has been ten years since the European Union launched an ambitious and highly funded project to understand the human brain in depth, and in particular to decipher how the brain creates consciousness. According to a 2012 report to the European Commission, the hope is that “We can gain fundamental insights into what it …
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For the first time in Spain, a woman has given birth to a baby after undergoing a uterus transplant. Previously, in October 2020, Tamara Franco had undergone uterine surgery at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in an operation that lasted 20 hours. The donor was her sister, since she suffers from Rokitansky syndrome, for which she was born without a …
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Geoffrey Hinton, the father of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has resigned as Google's vice president after spending a decade researching and developing this technology. The famous computer scientist, after his sudden departure, has warned of the risks of misuse of AI and calls for its regulation, calling for caution given the speed that this technological development is reaching. Hinton, a leading …
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