Organ donation for transplantation in children with cardiac arrest

Premortem interventions before donation in circulatory arrest in children have objective ethical problems. A few years ago, performing medical interventions in end-of-life situations were actions centered on the best interests of the dying patient. Shortage of organs… Read more.

New artificial species. Could they affect biodiversity?

An article was recently published in the blog Practical Ethics, defending the use of synthetic biology and gene editing to obtain new organisms that do not exist in nature. Its author argues that if biodiversity is valuable, then it should be promoted, adding new species instead of conserving it as it is. Contrary to the commonly assumed idea that current… Read more.

Children conceived through assisted reproduction, now adolescents, have more medical problems

These recent findings should be taken into consideration when making an ethical assessment of assisted reproduction. ART present more medical and/or mental health problems than those conceived naturally... Read more.

Surrogacy in American male same-sex couples. This is a "select group" for whom the cost of children is particularly high

In 2014, approximately 37,800 male same-sex couples in the United States had children, most through gestational surrogacy.  Little is known until now, a study has now been published… Read more.

CRISPR diagnoisis tool. A new biomedical breakthrough from genome editing to disease diagnosis

CRISPR techniques are gaining traction in another realm of medical technology. It has recently been announced that the CRISPR tool, used up to now in the field of genome editing, can be used in another in diagnosis…

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Human tissues and organs produced using 3D techniques

The organoids produced can be used to assess the functions of different human organs, deepen our understanding of… Read more.