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 ...

Fin novembre 2025, le New England Journal of Medecine publiait un article concernant un essai clinique de vaccin à ARN ...

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 ...

Inf’OGM has studied over 600 dossiers filed in the European Union for molecules (enzymes, vitamins, additives) produced by micro-organisms, whether genetically modified or not. Among these dossiers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toulouse-based Micropep Technologies has just had one of its fungicidal micropeptides approved in the United States. The technology, developed and patented by this CNRS spin-off, is aiming for ...

At the European Patent Office (EPO), one of the key principles for patentability of inventions is that the invention must be described in sufficient detail for any “person skilled in the art” to be ...