Suite à l’approbation par les États membres de l’Union européenne, dont la France, du texte provisoire de déréglementation des OGM issus de nouvelles techniques génomiques (OGM/NTG), des députés franç ...

Dans un livre publié en 2022, Bill Gates déroule sa vision de la lutte contre les futures pandémies. Une vision qui repose sur une stratégie associant techniques de modification génétique, ...

Un rapport de l’Anses, publié en avril dernier, propose de renforcer la vigilance quand à l’usage des nanopesticides. Ces ...

Un contentieux concernant les droits de brevets sur Crispr/Cas9 court depuis plusieurs années entre ses principaux découvreurs, des universités et des instituts de recherche. A ce jour, l’issue de ce ...

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 ...

Eight years after its first releases of transgenic mosquitoes in Panama, Oxitec is planning a new phase of studies in the country, in partnership with Panama’s Institute for Scientific Research and ...

43 detections of insects having acquired resistance to the Bt proteins supposed to kill them were listed in a scientific article in 2023. 43 cases out of 73 studied, i.e. more than half. For the ...

Since 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has been discussing the regulation of organisms, components and products obtained through synthetic biology. After years of discussions, this ...

Commission européenne - Oliver Varhelyi, commissaire européen à la Santé et au Bien-être animal It is for this reason that the Commissioner also reassured the panel of industrialists about the ...

At the end of 2024, the Netherlands initiated a process of reflection on the meaning to be given to the legal definition of a GMO, discussing the definition word by word, expression by expression. A ...

At the beginning of April, the ITPGR again discussed the expansion of the list of crops covered by the multilateral system and the revision of the contract governing their use. While some Member ...

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 ...