Abstract
On 27 February 2012, Andre Boue passed away and Europe lost a main player in prenatal and perinatal biology and genetics. He played a major role in the development of genetics in France during the second half of the 20th century. He managed the Prenatal Biology Research Unit (#73) at INSERM (later renamed ‘Genetic and Foetal Pathology') from 1974 to 1993. He became Professor of Medicine in 1980. As a member of the French Advisory Committee on Ethics (1983–2000), he was actively involved in giving advice on matters concerning research on human embryos, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, genetic tests (DNA, cell banks), detection of trisomy 21 and so on.
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