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

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 ...

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 ...

In 2024, digital sequence information (DSI) derived from genetic resources was at the heart of international negotiations. Discussions focused mainly on the sharing of the benefits generated by the ...

In September 2024, the European Patent Office (EPO) refused a patent for human-pig chimeras on the basis of the ethical rules governing patentability in biotechnology. By invoking the protection of ...

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 ...

In 2024, the European Union once again recorded alerts of GMO contamination. Of the 24 alerts, the vast majority concerned unauthorized GM rice, but also papaya, soybean, flax and corn. Two cases of ...

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 ...

Le soja transgénique Roundup Ready profite moins bien de l’apport de soufre qu’une variété proche, mais non génétiquement modifiée. Ce genre d’effet pleïtropique avait déjà été observé et analysé. Si ...