Top news of the week: 26.05.2020.
#biodiversity #Biotech #EUGreenDeal #EUBiodiversity #biobased #Europe #eu_commission #food #agriculture #EUFarmToFork
Sustainability
Biotechnology indispensable for sustainable food system
Biotechnology will be indispensable to preserve biodiversity and accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable food and agricultural system in Europe
RT @EuropaBio: We welcome the @EU_Commission's #EUFarmToFork and #EUBiodiversity Strategies published as part of the #EUGreenDeal today. #Biotech plays a key role in helping to realise the ambitious goals set in the #EUGreenDeal.
Read our full press release here: https://t.co/DzHechyDua https://t.co/1AMgdXBT0m
OpenEuropaBio highlights synergies between biotechnology and Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategy ambitions
Brussels, 20 May 2020 - EuropaBio welcomes the Commission’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies published as part of the European Green Deal and fully supports the ambitions to ...
Scientific publishers and #openaccess advocates are waiting anxiously to see whether the Trump administration will end a long-standing policy and require that every scholarly article produced with U.S. funding be made immediately free to all
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OpenWill Trump White House tear down journal paywalls? Many anxiously await a decision
Administration mulls major changes to open-access policies
RT @RoseLabCornell: Algal genome provides insights into first land plants | Cornell Chronicle https://t.co/vkCdATt7K8 via @AddThis
OpenAlgal genome provides insights into first land plants
Cornell researchers have sequenced and analyzed the genome of a single-celled alga that belongs to the closest lineage to terrestrial plants and provides many clues to how aquatic plants ...
Thank you to all patient representatives from Central & Eastern Europe countries who participated in a recent @imi_paradigm workshop to give feedback on tools being developed to support sustainable patient engagement in medicines R&D
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OpenCEE Patient Engagement Conference Part 1: Transferability workshops report
On May 12th, PARADIGM organised 3 parallel workshops online, aimed to provide the opportunity for participants from the CEE countries to give feedback and shape the thinking about the ...
RT @AgBioWorld: EU plans cut to antimicrobial and pesticide use on its farms, guess who are mad at the idea? Anti-GM activists, who care two hoots about the farmers or the environment, are worried that gene editing might slip through into European crops! https://t.co/C7sv4fqqoi
OpenEU plans cut to antimicrobial and pesticide use in Farm to Fork strategy
The European Commission has set targets to reduce pesticide use and sales of antimicrobials by 2030. The Farm to Fork strategy includes a reduction by 50
RT @appg_agscience: Cross-party group leads calls for Ag Bill boost to genetic innovation post-Brexit - cpm magazine https://t.co/xeScJD4gqF
OpenCross-party group leads calls for Ag Bill boost to genetic innovation post-Brexit
A group of cross-party MPs and Lords are calling on the Government to support changes to the Agriculture Bill which would pave the way for the UK to ditch damaging EU rules blocking access ...
#Cellfree #syntheticbiology holds great promise. The field has evolved from a specialized research tool to the backbone of a variety of applications ready to tackle some of society’s greatest challenges, from #COVID19 to cancer to #climatechange.
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OpenSynthetic Biology Comes of Age
Northwestern's Center for Synthetic Biology aims to have a dramatic impact on medicine, the environment, and education.