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The disease cannot be cured, as the HIV remains in the patients’ body, although inactive. It is known that AIDS
Last October, Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/ncomms.3497) published two studies describing the bioartificial production of lacrimal and salivary glands. After their
Incidental findings and the resulting problems are increasing in magnitude According to a report by the Presidential Commission for the
Children born using in-vitro fertilisation have double the risk of dying in the first 28 days after birth than those
Another major advance in cell reprogramming and in obtaining iPS cells was achieved by researchers at Osaka and Kyoto universities,
One problem in reprogramming adult cells, using the technique proposed by Yamanaka in 2006, is that the percentage of cells
The use of contraceptives in HIV positive women who are receiving antiretroviral therapy could be problematic, since antiretroviral therapy may
The role of senescent cells could be crucial to the proper development of the embryo. Consequently, any action in senescent
From our point of view, we believe that the medical risk/benefit balance does not support the preventive use of contraceptives
The major ethical difficulties entailed should not be forgotten, since in addition to those of human cloning, it would have
Significant relationship between induced abortions and the risk of breast cancer. A recent meta-analysis (Cancer Causes and Control, DOI.10.1007/sl0552-013.0325-7), has
There are approximately 2.39 million people infected with the HIV virus in India. This figure doesn’t seem very high when
“This test gives rise to false positives” The detection of foetal aneuploidies (the most common being Down syndrome) using a
In 2005, the number of abortion-related deaths was very low; of a total of 820,151 legal abortions performed that year,
“We believe that even a single foetal reduction is ethically questionable and that the practice should not be in use
In an interesting article published in the British Medical Journal (2013; 347: f5239 doi:10.1136/bmj. F5239. Published 17-9-2013) the impact of
In 1956, economists Christopher Cundell and Carlos McCartney developed the QALY standard, which stands for Quality-Adjusted Life. This measure identifies
According to an article in Nature Cell Biology (15; 1507-1515, 2013), Izpizua’s team has, for the first time, created pieces
Indian Minister of Health Ghulam Nabi Azad has recently stated that the Indian parliament has no plans to legalize any
The ethical acceptability of the use of synthetic biology is a highly contested issue. In a recent article (Bioethics 27;
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