No sooner had Brexit been approved, than the GMO lobby shifted up a few gears Details
Discussion around new GMOs should be chance to ask uncomfortable questions about research and innovation, not sneer at non-GMO-believers, say professors
In the article below from the Belgian press, four professors (from schools of law, philosophy of science, and bioengineering) warn that Brexit shouldn t be a reason for deregulating new GMOs.
They make a number of extremely important points. Among them, that the driving force behind deregulation in Britain and parts of Europe – they focus on Belgium – is not really the issues that are flagged up (the hype about silver-bullet solutions to agricultural problems), but the lobbying power of Big Ag, together with an obsession at the national level with competitive advantage.
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UWA invention to speed up healing in dental patients
An invention developed by a researcher from The University of Western Australia that can speed up the regeneration of bone and tissue in patients after dental procedures will soon be rolled out to dental patients across the United States.
The intervention, named Striate+, is an artificial structure that can be implanted in the body for tissue to grow on to repair damage. It has been commercialised by Orthocell – a Perth-based regenerative medical company that develops products for the repair of soft tissue injuries.
Striate+ can be used in procedures such as dental bone defect repair and tissue augmentation around dental implants.
Personal care major Beiersdorf has developed a collection of alternative UV filter blends for use in cosmetic applications and sunscreens that it says provide increased stability and address nano particle concerns.
Writing in three separate
international patents (I, II and III), Beiersdorf said there were already a
“large number of commercially available sunscreens” made using several different approved UV light protection filter substances
, but many had disadvantages particularly around long-term stability or inclusion of nano substances.
Beiersdorf, therefore, had developed three formulation alternatives: an oil-in-water emulsion blending scleroglucan and hydrophilic UV filter substances; another oil-in-water emulsion blending scleroglucan and lipophilic UV filter substances; and a formulation made using photonic particles.
Trident Limited’s shares gained over 2 per cent on Friday after the company announced that it had been granted a patent for “Fabric and Method of Manufacturing Fabric by European Patent office. At 12:
Chinese technology firm Huawei has backtracked on a patent application it filed for a facial recognition system meant to identify Uyghurs in China.According to