Macron proposes fertility tests for 25-year olds
France's president has proposed offering state-funded fertility tests to 25-year olds, as one way to reverse the decline in the country's birth rate...
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Dr Barbara Kramarz is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme, while completing her PhD at UCL's Institute of Ophthalmology. Barbara then worked for four years as scientific curator at UCL’s Institute of Cardiovascular Science. She is currently working at a branch of Liverpool John Moores University in Doha, Qatar, as a module leader for research dissertations.France's president has proposed offering state-funded fertility tests to 25-year olds, as one way to reverse the decline in the country's birth rate...
Poland's new coalition Government has initiated the debate to reinstate public funding for IVF, in the first weeks of the new parliamentry session...
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The recent row over a passage in a school text book has highlighted how access to IVF has turned into a political battleground in Poland. Dr Barbara Kramarz gives some background to the issue...
A Polish man whose daughter was conceived via IVF plans to sue the education minister and an author over a passage in a new textbook...
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Although we have known of the interactions of nature and nurture for decades, the term 'epigenetics' has only recently been taken up by scientists and the wider public to refer to these phenomena...
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