title: [RESEARCHES ON EMBRYO: THE RISKS OF EUGENIC DRIFTS AND LIVING MATTER UNDER PATENT].
abstract: As a result of scientific progress, embryo, once classified as part of the maternal body, gained recognition in particular with medically assisted reproduction. It became a genuine topic of study, from being analyzed in its development to its characteristics of being a reserchers's object of desire due to its multiple possibilities of reserch and study. Despite belonging to the human species, and even though they are not completely classified as objects, supernumerary embryos, out of parental projects, were gradually reified in order to become the object of all genetic engineering fantasies, especially the quest of the perfect child, free of diseases and anomalies. Notwithstanding all the precautions taken by the legislator and the European institutions, future drifts concerning the enlargement of prenatal diagnostics and of living matter under patent possibilities are to be feared.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D033041:Embryo Research / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005053:Eugenics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D010330:Patents as Topic / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D028723:Personhood; D012306:Risk