The scientific discussion about the recent EU Regulation on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) is far from over. While the Slovak government considers taking legal action against it at the Court of Justice of the EU, the Slovak Academy of Science has published a statement supporting the NGT Regulation. The European Network of Scientists for Social … Read more
The Slovak Academy of Science (SAS), in its statement supporting the new NGT Regulation of the European Union (EU), ascribes a series of benefits to New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), but does not provide any scientific evidence to support this. Furthermore, the SAS ignores the substantial risks of these techniques that have been reported in the … Read more
Giuseppe Longo reviews the book “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution” by Nobel Prize winner, Jennifer Doudna, and Samuel Sternberg Abstract: Nobel Prize winner, Jennifer Doudna, and Samuel Sternberg survey recent advances in a pioneering area of molecular biology. In an accessible and elegant style, the authors present … Read more
Press Release A distortion of science and a danger to public and environmental safety 26 April 2021 The EASAC-endorsed Leopoldina Statement, demanding that the EU stops regulating ‘genome-edited’ plants, represents the narrow interests of ‘genome editors’ but it does not demonstrate the scientific objectivity or balance required, nor does it represent any consensus in … Read more
A research development that crashed a population of caged mosquitoes could enable elimination of non-target species, says Dr Ricarda Steinbrecher Gene drive researchers associated with Target Malaria and funded by US DARPA, the GATES Foundation and the UK BBSRC have just managed to crash a population of caged mosquitoes after 7-11 generations. This is a … Read more