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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 125 - April 2024
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Scientists from University College London (United Kingdom) have published research in Nature Medicine in which fetal stem/progenitor cells were obtained from amniotic fluid and grown in the laboratory to give rise to organoids. These are three-dimensional models of miniature organs on which a multitude of in vitro studies can be carried out. This is the first time organoids have been …
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On March 21, it was announced that surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) had successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a living 62-year-old man suffering from severe kidney disease. The surgery, which lasted 4 hours, was performed on March 16. This procedure in a living recipient represents a milestone in the field of xenotransplantation (the transplantation of organs or tissues …
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The major breakthroughs in genetic engineering took place in the 1960s and 1980s, and from these developments emerged the technologies that would allow the isolation, cloning and artificial transfer of genes from one individual to another, even between different species, which is what the term “transgenesis” refers to. The leap toward its applications for the treatment of human diseases due …
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Louis Pasteur conducted the famous experiments refuting the theory of spontaneous generation, according to which spontaneously living organisms could originate from inert, organic or inorganic matter. It was a belief, already noted by Aristotle, which was accepted almost universally, although some scholastics, with Thomas Aquinas at the head, raised objections from a philosophical angle. Following Pasteur’s …
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French President Emmanuel Macron has given an interview to the newspapers Libération and La Croix in which he commented that he is preparing a bill to legalize euthanasia that will be presented in April to the French parliament. Although Macron intends for it to be called neither the euthanasia law nor the assisted suicide law, these are the practices that he …
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National Health Service (NHS) England has announced that it will stop prescribing puberty blockers in its clinics for children who wish to change their sex. The so-called puberty blockers, which stop the appearance of the characteristic physiological changes in the adolescent phase, will from now on only be prescribed in clinical research trials. The British Government is committed to ensuring …
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