The Spanish company Almirall will test the drug, which targets psoriasis

The genetics testing company 23andMe licensed the rights to a drug it developed in-house to a Spanish pharmaceutical company, Bloomberg reported. This is the first time that the company has directly sold a product it created using the genetic information collected from users.

23andMe has already shared genetic data with pharmaceutical companies. GlaxoSmithKline has the exclusive rights to use its data for drug development, and purchased a $300 million stake in the company in 2018. But those drug companies use the company’s data to create their own drugs. In this case, 23andMe identified a drug candidate and conducted animal studies on that drug internally before selling it. The Spanish company, Almirall, will take the product through human trials.

“We’ve now gone from database to discovery to developing a drug,” Emily Drabant Conley, 23andMe’s vice president of business development, told Bloomberg.

The company’s repository of genetic and health data is a gold mine for drug development because researchers can look for relationships between particular genes and health outcomes and target them with therapeutics. The company has genetic data on around 10 million people, and it says around 80 percent agreed to let their anonymized data be used for research, including drug research. The terms of service say that customers who agree to let their data be used will not see any financial benefit, even if that data helps develop a blockbuster drug.

G.S. Kulkarni, J.:— This is a foreign adoption petition wherein the petitioner, Bal Asha Trust, Bal Asha Dham, Anand Niketan, Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai-400011, a recognized adoption agency alongwith the co-petitioners Mr. Fabil Maria Parodi and his wife Mrs. Elena Nerozzi, both of whom are Italian nationals having their address at Corso Roma 9-15121 Alessandria (AL), Italy, are before the court praying that male minor “Yuvraj” born on 15 July 2012 be granted in adoption to the proposed adopters.

2. Minor Yuvraj was admitted in Additional Observation Home, Mankhurd on 26 July 2017 and thereafter on the same day as per the Safe Custody Memo issued by Child Welfare Committee, Mumbai City-I, (for short ‘CWC) as per the provisions of Section 36(1) of the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 was transferred to the petitioner.

3. Thereafter, on an inquiry as undertaken as per Section 38 of the Juvenile Justice Act by an order dated 10 April 2019, the CWC declared minor Yuvraj legally free for adoption. A certificate to that effect is placed on record. The proposal for adoption in question by the adoptive parents was also considered by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), New Delhi by issuing a No Objection Certificate dated 13 September 2019 to this adoption as per Adoption Regulation 2017 and Article 17(c) of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and cooperation in respect of Inter-Country Adoption 1993.

4. Insofar as the adoptive parents are concerned, they are Italian nationals residing at address noted above. They have been married for past 16 years (Date of Marriage 18 May 2003) with no biological children. The adoptive parents have however, already adopted two sons aged 15 years and 11 years from Italy and China respectively. The citizenship certificates of the adoptive parents, consent letters and health reports are placed on record, also a family photograph and passport copies of the adoptive parents are also placed on record.

5. Insofar as the health of the adoptive parents is concerned, a report dated 10 September 2019 records that both the adoptive parents enjoy good physical and mental health and are not affected by any psycho-physical pathology and as a result both of them are healthy with a strong constitution.

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From: Helpdesk Adoptie Fiom

Date: Thu 9. Jan 2020 at 19:29

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Duty of investigation

Soul traffickers (Investigation of suspicions of fraudulent adoptions between Guatemala and Belgium)

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Detailed research by the Adoption Authority shows that there were 4,989 inter-country adoptions approved in Ireland, between January 1991 and September 2019.

In the first decade under examination, from January 1991 to October 2010, there were 4,282 inter-country adoptions from 33 countries. The vast majority of the overall figure, therefore, took place in the years to October 2010.

And, 83% of these children came from just five countries – Russia, Romania, Vietnam, China and Ethiopia.

Steep decline

From November 2010 to September 2019, there were 707 intercountry adoptions from 23 countries – comparatively a steep decline in numbers.

SALT LAKE CITY — The feeling of anticipation was eating through Belle Barbu.

It was Nov. 14, 2019. The 25-year-old Washington, Washington County, resident had traveled to Italy and was moments away from meeting her birth family.

The last time Barbu’s birth parents had seen her was the day she was born in a Romanian hospital. But even after their baby girl vanished, the family never stopped praying or believing that God would bring her back to them.

Belle Barbu was recently reunited with her parents about 25 years after she was kidnapped from a Romanian hospital. Operation Underground Railroad

The special reunion, decades in the making, was made possible with the help of Operation Underground Railroad.

"Soul traffickers" investigates suspicions of fraudulent adoptions between Guatemala and Belgium

"Where do I come from? Who am I? Who is my birth mother? It’s all on file but… it’s not true"

When Sophie pronounces this sentence, she is 30 years old. It is at this age that the landmarks on which she has relied since she was a child, collapsed.

Sophie left her native Guatemala in 1984 and has lived with her adoptive mother in Belgium ever since. A story of successful and assumed adoption: Viviane never hid anything from her daughter.

Sophie has been leafing through her adoption file since she was a child, and she has written many letters in an attempt to find her biological mother. In vain.

Private actors make child trafficking adoptions

Debate As more irregularities come to the surface, more adoptees begin to demand that both the past and the present adoptions be examined. The requirements are paradoxically supported by the same treaty that the adoption agencies are leaning towards - the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Since the turn of the year, it is the law in Sweden and now we must start working to prevent trafficking in children in real terms, writes Maria Fredriksson, adoption debater.

From 1 January this year, the Convention on the Rights of the Child is law in Sweden. The Children's Convention was adopted in 1989 and came into force the following year. Sweden was one of the first countries to ratify it and for several years various forces have worked to raise it to Swedish law. Now this is reality.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child establishes the right of children to be registered at birth. Furthermore, children have the right, as far as possible, to know their origins and to be cared for by their parents. The State party to the Convention undertakes to respect the child's right to identity and, upon deprivation, shall provide appropriate support to quickly restore the child's identity. In addition, the State Party shall take all measures to prevent trafficking in children, regardless of purpose and form.

The Swedish adoption organization Adoptionscentrum, which is the world's second largest and one of the world's oldest, is one of the actors that has long been pushing the issue of the Children's Convention as a law under the slogan "Children's right to family" and international adoption has since been formalized with similar altruistic slogans.

Brain scans of Romanian orphans adopted in UK show early neglect left its mark

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Children who experience severe deprivation early in life have smaller brains in adulthood, researchers have found.

The findings are based on scans of young adults who were adopted as children into UK families from Romania’s orphanages that rose under the regime of the dictator Nicolae Ceau?escu.

Now experts say that despite the children having been adopted into loving, nurturing families in the early 1990s, the early neglect appears to have left its mark on their brain structures.