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Conséquences éthiques et sociales de biomarqueurs prédictifs de la mort chez l’homme

Gaille, M., Araneda, M., Dubost, C., Guillermain, C., Kaakai, S., Ricadat, E., Todd, N., Rera, M.
Ethical and social consequences of biomarkers that predict impending death in humans
médecine/sciences, 36:12, 1199–1206 (2020)
Open Access

Abstract

Fundamental research on ageing has taken an interesting turn in recent years with the rapid development of biomarkers predicting mortality in model organisms, particularly Drosophila, as well as in humans through improvements in approaches to the identification of circulating molecules in mass. These developments lead to a shift in our ability to predict the occurrence of death from the historically population level to the individual level. We question here the ethical, medical and social implications of this change of scale.

Das Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung (MPIDR) in Rostock ist eines der international führenden Zentren für Bevölkerungswissenschaft. Es gehört zur Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, einer der weltweit renommiertesten Forschungsgemeinschaften.