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Biological beginning of human life

Fertilisation is the dynamic and temporal process by which an individual is formed from materials supplied by its parents. Fertilisation is a process with epigenetic temporal dynamics: the genetic information inherited is fed back by the process itself (by interaction of the intracellular medium components) over the hours that this takes. The resulting zygote is more than the mere sum, …

Uterus transplant. Medical and ethical reflection

The results of the first clinical trial on living donor uterus transplantation have been published, … Leer más.

Possible ethical issues in foetal genome sequencin

A technique enabled the foetal genome using a small sample of the mother's blood. This attractive novel technique has opened up objective ethical questions. …Leer más.

First clinical trial with iPS cells in humans

One extensively debated topic, from both a ethical and technical point of view, is to determine which procedure is best for generating cell lines …

Is it morally licit to use cell lines obtained from currently stored embryonic stem cells?

CONSULTATION: Is it morally licit to use cell lines obtained from embryonic stem cells?

One colleague of us, who is currently conducting research in the USA, mentioned to us that he had "recently discovered that the cells with which he was working come from human embryos, …

Legal status of human-animal hybrid embryos

In addition to the biomedical problems raised by human-animal hybridization, there are also objective legal problems. The underlying problem is to determine whether hybrids containing human biological material, mainly DNA, should …Leer más.

Opinion of American and Dutch doctors on sedation in terminally-ill patients.

Sedation is the pharmacological induction of a state of impaired consciousness... In both the United States and the Netherlands, sedation is described in diverse terms, and there are agreements among American and Dutch physicians on the various …Leer más.