Ten years back at the United Nations General Assembly, all world leaders promised to eliminate harmful practice of female genital mutilation/ cutting (SDG-5 target 5.3) by 2030. But instead of ...

GENEVA, June 14 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office on Friday warned that the global fight against female genital mutilation was being undermined by families crossing borders to have ...

DLGAP5 is proposed as a causal gene related to oocyte meiosis disorder for the first time. It expanded the current spectrum of pathogenic genes responsible for the phenotype of oocyte maturation and ...

A coalition of nonprofit and state organizations, formed under a Washington law creating criminal and civil penalties for female genital mutilation, has set out to educate and support victims and ...

With The Gambia overturning its law on female genital mutilation, here are countries where it is still practised. According to The World Health Organisation, in countries that practice it, FGM is ...

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Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of DNA can be passed down to future generations and are important for how we ...