GreenLight Bisciences présente sur son site Internet une dizaine d’autres produits à ARN interférent : des insecticides ...

Un brevet permet à son titulaire de « protéger » une invention et donc d’en contrôler l’usage par des tiers. Ces derniers ...

Aux États-Unis, une bataille judiciaire entre deux entreprises semencières, Corteva et Inari, a mis en lumière une contradiction du système des brevets. Censés encourager l’innovation en échange de la ...

Whilst the algorithms of the GAFAM companies are seeking, day by day, to gain ever greater control over our internet searches and, ultimately, over our choice of news sources and our free will, some ...

New genetic modification techniques (NGTs) are presented by their proponents as a mean of promoting innovation in seed production and broadening farmers’ choices. However, the US experience shows that ...

In an article published in Philosophies in July 2026, Grégori de Souza and Jelson Roberto de Oliveira argue that, from a philosophical standpoint, the genetic manipulation of plants raises new ethical ...

L’argument selon lequel l’Union européenne doit rattraper son retard sur les autres pays en déréglementant les OGM obtenus par de nouvelles techniques de modification génétiques (OGM/NTG) est répété à ...

Molecular agriculture is an idea as old as transgenesis. Attempts to have tobacco, rice, or corn produce therapeutic molecules have been made many times, but the results have been few and inconclusive ...

In 2022, KWS launched its TraitWay catalogue online 2, which offers patent licences covering “native traits” – that is, characteristics already present in plant biodiversity, such as disease ...

In late April 2026, the French government supported the deregulation of GMOs produced using new techniques of genetic modification (GMO/NGT). A month earlier, however, the French Embassy in the United ...

The “Seed Sector Meeting” held on 4 February i took place against a specific political backdrop: the ongoing European discussions on a proposal to deregulate GMOs derived from new genetic modification ...

A patent confers the right to prevent third parties from exploiting an invention. Whilst historically it applied to specific technical objects and/or the processes for obtaining them, its extension to ...