THE NAGOYA PROTOCOL ON ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES AND BENEFIT SHARING: WHAT IS NEW AND WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PROVIDER AND USER COUNTRIES AND THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY?

In culmination of the efforts by the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) to adopt an international regime to regulate access and benefit sharing, the Nagoya Protocol was adopted at the COP 10 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on 29 October 2010.The preceding negotiations aimed to produce a legal Starters tool or r

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Abstract: Lichen simplex chronicus is a skin disease that mostly affects female patients, with a peak incidence between ages 35 and 50 years.On the scalp, it appears as a single or multiple oval lesions, showing Impact Vest scaling and hair shaft loss or breakage.An important dermoscopic feature of the disease are the "broom fibers." Histopathology