On May 31st the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, the country’s central decision-making body, announced that the Chinese...
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Gene Therapy for Blindness Sparks Hope
Pigmentary retinopathy is a heterogeneous group of inherited eye diseases that affects vision and sometimes causes blindness. All forms of this...
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Demographic Report from the High Commissioner for Planning
On 12 May, the High Commissioner for Planning in France, François Bayrou, issued a report on demography as being “fundamental to...
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Non-justified Use of ICSI (Specialized IVF Technique) for ART?
Does assisted reproductive technology (ART) resort too often to the use of unnecessary and costly techniques? In a recent study published in...
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The ECHR Refuses Parental Recognition for a Surrogate Child Born Abroad
On May 18, 2021, in its House judgment, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously concluded that refusing to recognize two persons...
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France Doubles Paternity Leave to Reinforce Father-child Bond
On May 12th 2021, the French government published a decree in the official journal to specify the exact terms for extending paid paternity...
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