Depuis juillet 2023, les institutions de l’Union européenne (UE) sont engagées dans des discussions sur la proposition de déréglementation des OGM. Ces discussions suivent une procédure de négociation ...

Une proposition de directive faite par la Commission européenne le 16 décembre 2025 invite les États membres et le Parlement européen à déréglementer la commercialisation des bactéries, levures, virus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For some times now, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is discussing an expansion of its scope to all plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. Many ...