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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 118 - September 2023
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As we previously explained in an article published by our Observatory, artificial embryos (also called embryoids, embryonic models or blastoids) are cellular aggregates obtained from what are popularly known as "stem cells”. These cells reflect some structures and functions of embryos to a certain degree, and many research teams have been working on them for years in order to study …
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The Bioethics Observatory of the Catholic University of Valencia (UCV) held the Congress on New Frontiers in Neuroethics in July. Julio Tudela, director of the Bioethics Observatory, has coordinated the event in which experts from international universities have participated. They analyzed the ethical dilemmas posed by neuroethics. Concrete solutions to social problems of our time The presentations at the first …
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A recent study provides worrying evidence on the relationship between the use of certain contraceptive treatments and the prevalence of depression in women who use them. The authors of the paper say that “ findings support that oral contraceptive use is causally associated with an increased risk of depression in adolescents as well as in adults, especially soon after the …
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An article recently published in the journal Cell, raises the need to assign a legal status to new embryonic models - human embryos - obtained from pluripotent cells, coming from embryonic cells (human Embryonic Stem Cells (HESCs) or from reprogrammed somatic cells (Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs)). The authors propose a redefinition of the human embryo, which could be …
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Doubt is a key feature of scientific progress that consists of a constant reevaluation of hypotheses. This constant doubt and proposal of new theories often leads the research community to controversy and conflict. This is the framework that fosters the making of bets between scientists, which arise with some frequency. In most cases, they help to visualize major problems that science …
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The European Court of Human Rights of Strasbourg (ECHR) rejected, on June 8, a lawsuit filed by eight women against the Polish legislation, which prohibits abortion in case of congenital malformations of the fetus. In this way, it sets a legal precedent, since a thousand other claims similar to this one have been presented in the ECHR. Of the eight …
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