... The development of the methods of in vitro fertilization has resulted to obtain human embryos which could be maintained in life apart from the maternal uterine cavity, whose it is possible to take cells, either at diagnostic ends ( Diagnostic Génétique Préimplantatoire ), or for ends of research. The “Diagnostic Génétique Préimplantatoire” is a technique which has the aim of posing diagnostic early genetic disease, on a human embryo in vitro, in order to clarify a decision of transfer in utero. It thus relates to the couples which present a risk to transmit to their descent a serious genetic disease … moreover, the recent developments of science open new prospects as for a potential uses for the cells stocks, which they are embryonic or adult, with the fine therapeutic ones... the hope to develop new methods to replace or repair fabrics or cells damaged or sick, but also to treat diseases... These new prospects raise great hopes as for the cellular possibilities of therapies and the advent of a new regenerative medicine. They also cause many fears insofar as they require the use of the human embryo and its cells... ( what) raises questions relating to the exploitation of the human embryo. All this raises the secular question of the statute of the human embryo and its protection. A sharp debate was thus established...



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