biotechs

Le prix Nobel de chimie 2020 vient d’être attribué. Il récompense Emmanuelle Carpentier et Jennifer Doudna, une chercheuse française et l’autre américaine, pour leur invention de l’outil d’édition du génome CRISPR-Cas9. Dès son apparition, ce « couteau suisse » de l’édition de la vie a suscité un engouement extraordinaire. Des milliers d’applications

  I am dragging myself along, I am no longer worth anything... Affected by old age, "organ" disease or accidents in life, my body no longer responds, it has become my best enemy and remembers me at the slightest wrong step. This body loved, adored, pampered since

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,

More and more French startups in the field of life sciences are opening their capital to Chinese funds. This is a good way for them to find the industrial and financial partners capable of opening the doors of this huge emerging market to them.

Alors que des chercheurs chinois annoncent avoir modifié le gène d’embryons humains afin de les rendre résistant au virus du Sida, la technologie qu’ils ont employée est sur toutes les lèvres. Depuis quelques mois, ce mot imprononçable, CRISPR, arrive en effet de plus en plus souvent dans les manchettes des

The High Council for Biotechnology is in crisis: associations have left its Economic, Ethical and Social Council (CEES). The rag is burning about the qualification of new genetic techniques for plant breeding: are they GMOs or not? Because European pressure is strong: seed companies need