Bioethics

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Bioethics

Memento mori

Many old people believe that they live too long, and claim that they have the right to voluntarily leave their sickened life.

31.05.2018
Bioethics

Sell DNA

A number of companies offer to buy personal genetic information in order to then sell it for medical research.

23.01.2018
Bioethics

Leave quietly

Providing a patient with a decent life, even if it lasts for several months or days, is not an easy task, but it can be solved.

30.11.2017
Bioethics

A rat with a human brain

Implantation of human brain organoids into the brains of rats takes ethical disputes to a new level.

10.11.2017
Bioethics

Pain crisis

Many countries do not provide morphine to all those in need: Mexico covers only 36% of the need, China – 16%, Vietnam – 9%, Russia - 8%.

24.10.2017
Bioethics

Bioethicists are afraid of homunculi

Scientists have been breaking spears for months – how real is the threat of raising children in artificial wombs without the participation of women.

09.10.2017
Bioethics

The Doctor is a Fraud

Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was praised for turning the dream of regenerative medicine into reality – until it was revealed that he was a fraud and a false prophet.

02.10.2017
Bioethics

Ethics of chimeric eggs

Scientists should recognize that the creation of such chimeras is not associated with moral problems, and begin to actively consider the opportunities provided.

21.07.2017
Bioethics

Rules for creating synthetic human beings

In an article in the journal eLife, the authors consider the ethical issues of creating what they call "synthetic human beings with embryo-like properties."

31.03.2017
Bioethics

Is euthanasia profitable?

Providing those in need with medical care during voluntary retirement in Canada will help save from 34.7 to 138.8 million US dollars annually.

24.01.2017
Bioethics

Scissors for the genome

The heads of the company "Genotek" – about how genes are modified, what ethical issues this may raise and whether they will use gene technologies to create "children to order".

02.12.2016
Bioethics

New children from three parents

While experts in reproduction and bioethics criticized the creators of the first "three-parent" child, several more reports of similar experiments appeared.

24.10.2016
Bioethics

Have a drink before the autopsy

American scientists have concluded that beer provides the proper level of anesthesia and immobilization of laboratory land snails before killing in the framework of research.

10.10.2016
Bioethics

They are terribly far from the people

Ethicists disagree with doctors and ordinary people – this is the conclusion reached by scientists from the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich.

20.09.2016
Bioethics

Is it possible to plan a healthy person?

A new medical service is being actively promoted in Russia – DNA testing for parents, which allows predicting diseases in an unborn child.

15.09.2016