News - Announcements

April 2009

L'exposition "Our Body" interdite (23.4.2009)
Le tribunal de grande instance de Paris a interdit hier l'exposition anatomique "Our Body/A corps ouvert". Rappelons que cette manifestation mettait en scène de vrais cadavres humains conservés par la technique de "plastination".

Germany restricts genetic screening (23.4.2009)
In marked contrast to Spain, Germany has decided to tighten the rules on genetic screening of embryos. Measures to be accepted by parliament tomorrow will affect screening in three main areas...

Nuffield Council on Bioethics: New technologies are cutting the GP out of health care
Inquiry: Medical profiling and online medicine: The ethics of 'personalised' health care in a consumer age

US woman gets dead fiance's sperm (19.4.2009)
A New York woman has won a race-against-the-clock legal bid to harvest her dead fiance's sperm.

Iran at Forefront of Stem Cell Research (15.4.2009)
Though the world's attention has focused on Iran's advancing nuclear program, Iranian scientists have moved to the forefront in embryonic stem cell research, according to a recent joint study by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.