A recent report published this month by the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states in paragraph 16, point b, the following: “The Committee notes with concern; (b)That societal perceptions that persons with Down syndrome [...]
The genes of living beings are the functional units of inheritance on which the physical and physiological characteristics that make up the organism depend. The Human Genome Project made it possible to sequence, i.e., read from end to end, the DNA nucleotide [...]
Peter Singer has been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences [shared with Steven Pinker] for “innovative academic contributions in the spheres of rationality and the moral domain” as announced by its sponsors. Philosopher [...]
These days we can read in several media that the British Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal filed by a woman with Down syndrome and a mother of a child who also has it. This confirms British legislation that [...]
Polygenic preimplantation genetic diagnosis presents serious bioethical difficulties 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 [...]
The miracle of life. The wonder of human life Two small cells, the male and female gametes, which will not live for more than 120 or 24 hours respectively, are the protagonists of an impressive biological event: their complementary fusion [...]
We have often addressed the medical and bioethical challenge to obtain more organs for transplantation. The global organ shortage and the need to obtain them in the best conditions could jeopardize the dignity of the end of life of the [...]
Last month, February 17, The Washington Post published an article entitled, “Can Computer Algorithms Learn to Fight Wars Ethically? Maybe the autonomous weapons being developed by the Pentagon will be better than humans at making moral decisions. Or maybe they’ll [...]
Our lecture about transhumanism at European Parliament session The backdrop to our conference this week is a reflection on the risks of abandoning our model of development to technological compulsion. The array of scientific-technical advances in areas such as genetic [...]
