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In India, a baby girl was born in mid-October 2018 following uterine transplant surgery performed on her mother in May 2017 (see India: two...
The Norwegian Supreme Court has ruled in favour of conscientious objection and freedom of conscience for doctors. It held that Dr Katarzyna...
In the Netherlands, people can now be identified as "gender neutral" on their passports as opposed to male or female. This is a European...
Aurélie, aged 36, was six months pregnant when she discovered she had breast cancer. But doctors reassured her: "Patients often think that...
David Humphries, aged 62, was on a family holiday in the Egyptian resort of Makadi, when he sought medical advice about chest pains on 13...
His parents knew that Ismaël would not live but they allowed the pregnancy to go full-term, to welcome their baby into the world. Born on 8...
It's not a competition, but if it were, "the biological brain would be way ahead of the digital brain", explains Yann LeCun, chief AI...
The Montpellier Court of Appeal is dealing with a "complex" case: Bernard and Marie were married with two children when, in 2011, Bernard "...
Professor Hamamah, head of the reproductive biology department at CHU Montpellier (University Hospital Centre), plans to open a "fertility...
On Friday, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks, threatened Poland that the potential adoption of its draft bill against eugenic abortion would violate the country's human rights' commitments[1]. This is not the first time that Mr. Muiznieks has advocated abortion. However, on closer examination, his threat seems exaggerated for the most...
On Wednesday, Le Monde published an article in which 156 MPs call on the government to legislate on...
CRISPR tools have caused gene drive technology to resurface: it consists in stimulating the transmission...
