The biannually held fair for research and development, analytics and diagnostics will be accompanied by a top-class scientific congress. The main visitors will be scientists from the life sciences and from the chemical industry. Federal Council Passed a Statement Regarding the Biomedical Convention Switzerland is going to support the cooperative international protection of people from possible dangers caused by modern medicine and biotechnology. The Commission launched on the 5th of September a wide public consultation on life sciences and biotechnology, in preparation for a policy initiative planned later this year. Patent laws, however, cannot guarantee the difference between wanted and unwanted discoveries.
Terminator technology allows plants to be genetically modified so that their seeds are sterile.
According to the National Institutes of Health in the USA there are 64 stem cell lines worldwide which fulfill the US criteria for federal funding.