The « Human Genome Project-Write (HGP-write) » has just come into being. Its French translation: “the project of writing human genome”. The announcement was made on June 2, 2016, by scientists and industrial business partners in the Science magazine. The purpose of...
Press Release, May 26, 2016 76% of the French are against using CRISPR-Cas9 for human genome-editing On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Alliance VITA teams informed and warned the public with their national citizen campaign “Stop GM Babies”. Launched simultaneously in 75 cities...
On November 5, 2015 an American biotechnology start-up, Editas Medicine announced the planned launch of a clinical test using the CrispR/Cas method in 2017, a world first. The CEO, Katrine Bosley, made this announcement during a conference held in Cambridge. The test...
In this video, Tugdual Derville describes the hopes and challenges raised by a new technique: the CRISPR-Cas9 method. Thanks to this technique it is now possible to replace, snip out or insert a gene to a cell’s DNA. It is a rather simple inexpensive genetic...
The question of human embryo research, which is specifically mentioned in the 2013 law, is again being debated in the current Health bill, which the Senate will finish examining on Tuesday October 6th, by a final vote on the totality of the articles. On April 10,...
On Friday September 18, 2015, The Guardian newspaper reported that Dr. Kathy Niakan, stem cell researcher at London’s Francis Crick Institute has filed a request with the “Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority” (HFEA), the U.K. governmental regulatory...
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