How do you protect crops from diseases, insects and other pests when pesticides have a serious sulphur smell? Scientific research proposes to modify plants using genetic editing resources. Biotechnology advocates swear that these modified plants are not GMOs and
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A group of German Green MEPs supports the use of genetic engineering techniques, which they believe could make a significant contribution to sustainable development. This is a novel approach that runs counter to the position that environmentalists usually take on this subject. In a forum on 10 June, the 22 signatories - who
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A research team at the University of North Carolina in the United States, led by one of the world's leading virus specialists, Professor Ralph Baric, is racing against time to artificially recreate the Chinese coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 is its scientific name). From DNA
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Mosquitoes are not only small animals that are particularly annoying on summer nights. They are also dangerous vectors of disease and as such are the source of several hundred million cases of serious infections worldwide each year. Insecticides seem to be in short supply because
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"Dancing, graceful, fascinating, strange, delicious, painful, deadly, jellyfish are all of these things. For fishermen, they are potential nuisances; for swimmers, the fear of a painful, sometimes dangerous sting" (1). Yet jellyfish collagen is set to revolutionize in vitro cell culture and medicine.
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Harold Vasselin's latest documentary "Gens des blés" will be released on DVD on September 5, 2019. It is a story of wheat and Man. Pierre is a biotechnologist, Florent is an organic farmer, Isabelle is an agronomist. Each of them works on the creation of new wheat, but they do it in a different way.
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Biotechnological risks, access to and sharing of the benefits of biodiversity: these are the issues at stake at the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP14, COPMOP3 and COPMOP9 ), which is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from 17 to 29 November 2018. Decision-makers from more than 190 countries are expected to
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Current recycling technologies are limited for plastic polymers, resulting in either poor quality recycling or high processing costs. But enzymes now offer a glimmer of hope since the discovery in Japan a few years ago of the "Ideonella" bacterium.
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BASF and the innovative SME Plant Advanced Technologies (PAT) are accelerating research into biofungicides. The partnership is based on the historical experience of the world leader in chemistry and on the unique technologies developed by PAT, including Plants A Milking. BASF and PAT, innovative SME, world leader
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Messe Frankfurt France is launching the 3rd edition of its Avantex Fashion Pitch competition for companies and start-ups that integrate new technologies in the clothing sector. The competition provides visibility and concrete support to the winners. To take part, candidates must join the Avantex Paris club.
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It grows along with the vegetables, using the bacteria naturally present in the plantings to create a natural cocoon around the food. What's its name? Scoby! A 100 % biodegradable packaging that grows along with the food it protects, and is therefore... alive. The alternative to packaging
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Abolis, a young genopolitan company, has won phase 2 of the 2030 Global Innovation Contest with the Cell Factory project. This prize rewards the second phase of its development: the completion of its platform for the design of microorganisms capable of producing, by fermentation, molecules of interest to the pharmaceutical industry,
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The biological is back: in multiple forms (genes, hormones, neurons) it is everywhere as an explanatory variable of our behaviours but also as a manipulable mechanism for social transformation. This biologization of the world and of the social world affirms a dynamic of progress and mobilizes a discourse
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As part of theMicroforms theatre cycle, Gaîté Lyrique presents Cockpit by Mael Le Mée - Cie Dorsa Barlow. A show where Mael Le Mée tells her life story in a kind of multimedia conference-performance, with bodyhacking, queer, biotechnologies, self-(science)fiction and participatory neuromuscular electrostimulation. All
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On the occasion of the agriculture fair, the government presented its action plan for the non-food areas of the bio-economy for the next three years on 26 February. Around fifty measures will make it possible to identify the potential and the economic and environmental co-benefits of the bioeconomy, to support projects
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Biotechnology is on the rise and now represents a major economic and societal challenge. However, far from science fiction stories and faced with a succession of "feats", they are still poorly understood and raise many questions. The fact remains that the top start has been made and that we will have to fasten our seatbelts.
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Modified mosquitoes, transformations of living things, genetic manipulation... Advances in biotechnology give us a feeling of omnipotence. And it is nature that pays the price. Isn't it time to ask the right questions? Threats to ecosystems and the climate are forcing us to change course.
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GMO crops took the world by storm in 2016, after marking time for the first time in 2015, with an increase of 3% in planted area to 185.1 million hectares in 26 countries around the world. This is according to a report by the ISAAA (International Service for Agricultural Research and Development).
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Technological innovations are always full of promise: they will change the world, they are often "disruptive", they will defeat hunger and poverty and lead us into old age, in full health, they will, thanks to nanomachines and other robots, ease our pain at work... Their prowess and
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Biotechnology, which exploits the properties of life for the design of new products or services, will provide innovative solutions to environmental problems by contributing in particular to the preservation of fossil resources. Biofuels, biosourced plastics, bioprocesses for cleaning up water and soil pollution, more sustainable human and animal food,
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