Piergiorgio Welby, co-President of the Luca Coscioni’s association, has realised his final will: on the 20th of December 2006 doctor Mario Riccio has ended the sanitarian treatment which kept him artificially alive. The public debate started in September, when Welby sent a video-message to the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, calling for his right-to-die. Suffering from

Last December 18, 2006 the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (7FP) was approved and enforced by the European Parliament and the European Council. With reference to the petiton submitted by professor Piergiorgio Strata after the Rome World Congress (March 2006) and calling the European Parliament for the 7FP to fund research projects on embryonic stem