REPORTS |
Genetic engineering of human embryos to treat diseases. An unprejudiced reflectionMany laboratories have employed the genetic engineering technique, in the hope that it might one day be used to treat human diseases. Things seem to have accelerated in the last few days though, after the authorisation in the UK (PDF version)… Read more. |
Contributions of religion in the field of research and biomedical practiceBioethical debates deal with the questions raised by scientific-technical breakthroughs. The swiftness with which these advances take place calls into question whether moral and theological ethics can provide answers to the new, or whether it should capitulate (PDF version)... Read more. |
NEWS |
Artificial skin . Recent study opens the doors to production of functionally active skinA very interesting innovation of using iPS cells for the production of epithelial tissue. A recent study published in Science Advances, describes the production of skin, functionally active… |
Genome editing. Human embryos modified for the second timeRisks that they involve for the individual treated and future generations, and for the step taken towards human “enhancement”. An article in which is announced that had been used the CRISPR/Cas9 technique to introduce a genetic modification… Read more. |
Surrogate motherhood stirs deep controversy for both medical and ethical reasonsSurrogate motherhood can be genetic or gestational, which refers to the implantation in the surrogate mother of an embryo that was obtained by one of three means… Read more. |
Potential application of organoids that mimic different organsIn 2011, almost incidentally, Madeline Lancaster of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna managed to produce primitive retina cells and different nerve cells from embryonic stem cells. However, Lancaster and her colleagues were not the first to produce a brain mini-structure in a bioartificial culture… Read more. |
IN BRIEF |
Sicides double the number of deaths due to road accidents for the first time in SpainThe suicides rates shows a total of 3,910 people took their own lives, the highest figure recorded since 1980, when the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) began publishing this information. The data show that in 2014, suicides were again… Leer más. |
Organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners. The issue remains unresolvedAlthough legal provisions were published in January 2015 regulating organ donation from prisoners on death row in China, in practice . It seems that behind it… Read more. |
Do pregnancies achieved following assisted reproduction techniques have more risks?One medical and ethical aspect of assisted reproduction that should be considered is to what extent singleton pregnancies achieved following these procedures have (or ave not) more risks than those conceived naturally. In an extensive meta-analysis that included 161,370 births following assisted procreation and 2,280,241 conceived naturally… |
Mitochondrial therapy. U. S. A. have also proposed this practice be legalisedMitochondrial transfer (modified mitochondrial therapy) was recently approved in the United Kingdom. Now, a group of investigators in the United States have also proposed . However… Read more. |
Stomach organoids produced from mouse embryonic stem cellsThree-dimensional stomach tissue has been produced from mouse embryonic stem cells. Investigators added various growth factors to a culture of stem cells and 6 days later, stomach tissue was generated. After 60 days, the stomach tissue produced… Read more. |
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