Ethical and social consequences of biomarkers that predict impending death in humans].

Marie Gaille, Marco Araneda, Clément Dubost, Clémence Guillermain, Sarah Kaakai, Élise Ricadat, Nicolas Todd, Michael Rera

Medecine sciences : M/S 2020 Dec

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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. © 2020 médecine/sciences – Inserm.

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Marie Gaille, Marco Araneda, Clément Dubost, Clémence Guillermain, Sarah Kaakai, Élise Ricadat, Nicolas Todd, Michael Rera. Ethical and social consequences of biomarkers that predict impending death in humans]. Medecine sciences : M/S. 2020 Dec;36(12):1199-1206