Alors que l’Union européenne tente de faire avancer son trilogue sur la déréglementation des OGM végétaux issus de nouvelles techniques (NTG), l’Association française des biotechnologies végétales (AF ...

Par le biais d’analyses en laboratoire réalisées en Tunisie puis en France à partir de trois échantillons de semences de soja ...

Présentée comme une réponse à la crise fourragère, une nouvelle culture s’installe discrètement dans les champs tunisiens. Derrière le soja, des semences génétiquement modifiées sont introduites sans ...

Sous couvert de faire du continent un leader mondial des « sciences de la vie », la Commission européenne confirme sa vision ...

Toulouse-based Micropep Technologies has just had one of its fungicidal micropeptides approved in the United States. The technology, developed and patented by this CNRS spin-off, is aiming for ...

Mosquitoes carry pathogens that cause diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, and are therefore known as vector-borne diseases. As part of the fight against these mosquitoes, researchers at ...

The press release of 20 March 2024 is clear on the European Commission’s analysis. It states that “advances in life sciences, supported by digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI), and the ...

The European Commission’s postponement of its “ biotech law ” until the end of 2026 is raising questions. Presented as a future “ regulation “, this law must be coordinated with other legal acts still ...

For the past fifteen years, governments have been discussing “synthetic biology” on an international level. If to date, an “operational” definition exists, the outlines of this field remain hard to ...

Plusieurs arbres ont été génétiquement modifiés par transgenèse. Citons l’eucalyptus, l’hévéa, le peuplier, le pin, et certains arbres fruitiers (prunier, poirier, pommier). Actuellement, seul ...

Adopted on May 24, 2024, after nearly 25 years of negotiations, the WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources, and Traditional Knowledge aims to regulate the use of natural and cultural ...

A few months ago, Living Carbon, a US start-up, announced that it had developed and planted genetically modified poplar trees in 2023. These trees are said to absorb more quickly carbon dioxide, one ...