For the first time, a Spanish trial developed over 20 years has succeeded in curing Fanconi anemia patients with gene therapy. Fanconi anemia is a rare genetic disorder affecting bone marrow, characterized by impaired DNA repair mechanisms, causing a progressive loss [...]
The genetic selection technique carried out presents ethical and technical difficulties, so other ethically acceptable alternatives should be sought. For the first time in Spain, a girl with sickle cell disease has been successfully treated by transplanting cells from her [...]
We have analyzed in previous articles the ethical, social and demographic implications of the increase in infertility (both female and male) in developed countries and the tendency to be a mother after the age of 30. This is generating an [...]
Non-invasive prenatal genetic testing NIPT is a method that uses maternal blood to detect fetal chromosomal abnormalities and other characteristics in early pregnancy, with no risks for the fetus. This makes it a promising method from both a medical and [...]
A recent article published in The New York Times (August 12, 2020), entitled The Poly-Parent Households Are Coming, discusses the current state-of-the-art in the production of babies and the technologies that are emerging to cater to new demands in this field. [...]
“Saviour sibling” will always be considered as a therapeutic remedy for his older brother or sister Saviour siblings new term. Just when the controversy over the production of “medicine babies” seems to have almost passed — since the establishment of [...]
This technique for extending human life has a risk-benefit clearly negative At present, genome editing techniques, especially CRISPR-Cas-9, seems to open up a whole range of promising applications in the fields of medicine, agriculture, animal husbandry and protection of the environment. Nevertheless, these [...]
Designer children. In our opinion, these technologies encourage children to be considered as a product that can be selected or rejected. We, therefore, consider that a moratorium should be proposed A recently published article in Fertility and Sterility (103; 342-343, [...]
