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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 110 - November 2022
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The “Trans Law” in Spain, increasingly criticized by experts
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The approval last June of the Bill for the Equality of Trans People and the Guarantee of LGBTI Rights by the Spanish Government has generated controversy since then. Now the Government wants to approve this regulation that contemplates medication with puberty blockers and legal sex change from the age of 12. It would be done ignoring the warnings …
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European Court of Human Rights condemns Belgium after euthanizing a depressed woman
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against Belgium for failing to conduct a proper investigation into the circumstances of Godelieva de Troyer's euthanasia. She was a 64-year-old woman who died by euthanasia in 2012 after being diagnosed with incurable depression. Unbeknownst to her relatives, and after 20 years of psychiatric treatment, an oncologist administered the lethal injection to …
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Humanizing the animal brain: a new ethical frontier
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A recently published paper reports the experiments of scientists at Stanford University in the USA, who inoculated self-organizing brain organoids from human cells into the brains of newborn rats, observing that there was integration of both neuronal tissues — murine and human — that led to changes in the animal's behavior. These neural organoids are clumps of human neurons cultured …
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Polygenic preimplantation genetic diagnosis: medicine or eugenics?
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Nathan Treff is the scientific director of the company Genomic Prediction, which, along with a few other companies, has been using "polygenic risk scores" that calculate the probability that someone will contract a disease based on the genetic contributions of hundreds, thousands or even millions of single DNA. It is about making changes in the “letters” of the genome…
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Cancer risk in children born from frozen embryos
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According to a recently published study, an increased incidence of cancer has been detected in children born after the transfer of frozen embryos in assisted reproduction procedures. The aim of the study was to investigate whether children conceived using these techniques, and more specifically after frozen embryo transfer, had a higher risk of childhood cancer than children conceived naturally. Currently, …
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The dilemma of when human life begins
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When does human life begin? This question has generated a wide debate in the scientific world, specifically since the eighties, with the appearance of assisted reproduction techniques. The question, according to a paper based on research by Steven Jacobs, offers results about when an embryo or fetus should be considered human. It also explains the normative approach on when the …
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FIAMC opposes the appointment of Mariana Mazzucato to the Pontifical Academy for Life
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The World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC) has opposed the appointment of the economist Mariana Mazzucato as a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. The prestigious international association that was born in 1966 and is based in the Vatican, brings together Catholic medical associations from around the world, and has made its concern public, recalling that …
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