Le 28 janvier 2026, la Commission « environnement » du Parlement européen a confirmé, à une large majorité, son soutien à la ...

Dans une récente proposition de règlement prétendant « renforcer les secteurs de la biotechnologie et de la bioproduction », la Commission européenne souhaite voir ces secteurs régis par une politique ...

Dès que les agriculteurs ont utilisé massivement des herbicides, sont apparues des adventices tolérantes à ces substances. Il s’agit d’un phénomène biologique simple : le vivant s’adapte en permanence ...

Since July 2023, EU institutions have been engaged in discussions on the proposal to deregulate many GMOs. These discussions follow an established procedure of negotiations between the Council of the ...

The legislative texts concerning GMOs proposed by the European Commission aim to almost entirely remove the regulatory framework for GM plants and microorganisms. In addition to this deregulation, two ...

Near Valencia (Spain), in Polinyà del Xúquer, a trial of genetically modified tobacco to produce a molecule of therapeutic interest has been authorised. This tobacco has been modified using genetic ...

While the European Commission is attempting to deregulate new genome modification techniques (NGT), the US company Pairwise is multiplying its “partnerships” combining the Crispr/Cas tool and its ...

Technologies generate increasingly powerful means of action on the systems in which we live. However, the assessment of the effects of these technologies is limited to the direct consequences of their ...

Negotiations on the future European regulation on new genetic modification techniques have been focusing on two sensitive issues for several months: patentability and sustainability. Keen to conclude ...

Depuis quelques temps, le Traité international sur les ressources phytogénétiques pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture discute d’un élargissement de son application à toutes les ressources génétiques ...

For some times now, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is discussing an expansion of its scope to all plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Many ...

Steve McCluskey - Mosaic medallion in the floor of the main hall of the Jordan Hall of Science, University of Notre Dame. Bears the quotation from Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975), "Nothing in ...