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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 130 - October 2024
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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 and other impairments are less valuable than other persons contribute to the high level of selective termination of pregnancies following …
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Argentina’s Supreme Court of Justice has rejected the application of a woman who requested the use of her late husband's gametes to conceive embryos through assisted reproduction. She had hoped to undergo an intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) procedure using genetic material from her deceased spouse, who died on 17 September 2020. The woman claims the couple had wanted to start a …
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From the very beginning, the creation of increasingly realistic models of human embryos has raised significant bioethical questions, which have intensified as the “humanization” of these synthetic models adopts a configuration closer to that of true embryos obtained by fertilization, as reported in a recent article published in the journal Nature. Although scientists have been working on these …
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Australian company Monash IVF, a specialist in in vitro fertilization (IVF), has been sued by 700 former patients who were part of a genetic screening program for destroying their embryos. According to the lawsuit, Monash IVF, as well as the companies Repromed and Compass Fertility, performed genetic tests on the plaintiffs’ embryos, claiming that around 35% were abnormal, according to law firm Margalit …
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