NEW GENOMIC TECHNIQUES: NGOS KEEP MEDIA ATTENTION HIGH
The scientific community has welcomed the results of more than 20 years of research that led to the completion of the sequencing of human genome. The discovery corrects thousands of structural errors in the previous reference genetic material. In the EU, NGOs (notably in Germany and Austria) are keeping the media attention high on the matter […]
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NBTs: ECJ Advocate General’s preliminary conclusions
Posted on 09/04/2018 - By Valeria D'Agostino
New plant-breeding techniques (NBTs): ECJ Advocate General’s preliminary conclusions A first sound and promising basis on which to proceed “Ever since humans have grown plants and raised animals for food, they have selected plants and animals with beneficial traits for further breeding. Such traits reflected naturally occurring genetic variations and resulted, for example, in […]
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FARM TO FORK STRATEGY: MEMBER STATES CALL FOR A NEW REVISION OF SUR
November was marked by the Commission communication on fertilizers whose aim is to face the consequences of the skyrocketing prices for this agricultural input for farmers. On the legislative dossiers, the revision of the sustainable use of pesticides has also been affected by the current crisis and the consequences of the Russian aggression to Ukraine, […]
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