Si toutes les semences servent a priori pour reproduire une plante, elles sont bien loin d’avoir toutes le même procédé d’obtention, et le même statut juridique. Tour d’horizon. Crédits : The giant ...

Rothamsted Research - Le réseau numérique de caméras, de scanners laser et de capteurs du "Field Scanalyzer" fournit des ...

Trois groupes d’organisations françaises et européennes ont publiquement appelé les responsables politiques à ne pas ...

It’s not so often that they speak out. Yet retailers play an important role in the food industry. On June 30, 2023, when the European Commission’s proposal was still only known following a leak, the ...

Entre complexité scientifique et complexité sémantique, il est facile de s’y perdre. Pour que les citoyens et citoyennes puissent participer pleinement au débat en cours sur la déréglementation des ...

“We are on a mission to build a more sustainable agriculture for future generations“.This is the vision of Micropep Technologies, a Toulouse-based company spun out of CNRS, which has raised around €23 ...

Understanding the absence of any obligation to disclose the origin of the material on which a patented “invention” is based is one of the keys to understanding the ongoing strategy of appropriation of ...

The 19th meeting of the Scientific Network on Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms will take place in hybrid format – in Warsaw, Poland and online.

Mosquito-borne diseases are mainly controlled by “mechanical” methods (mosquito netting, stagnant water management) or chemical methods (repellents, insecticides).These methods are still used today.

Norway is the world’s leading salmon producer. This economic sector ranks first in exports after the oil sector. In 2018, its sales revenue – up 4.4% on 2017 – amounted to 6.46 billion euros for a ...

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 ...

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 ...