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 ...

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, 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 ...

On 14 October 2025, eight consumer associations from various EU Member States published an opinion calling on European institutions to maintain GMO labelling to enable European consumers to make ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the trialogue on the proposed deregulation of GMOs got underway on 6 May between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Member States of the European Union, French ...

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 ...