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. As a competence center it contributes to the improvement of health, nutrition and environmental protection in rural and urban areas in West Africa. The research center, which began when Swiss researchers in the tropics made their laboratory available, is now the laboratory of the research partnership North-South. Council of States Settles Question of Liability Whoever agrees to treatment with GMO medications cannot hold the physician liable for unwanted side effects. This was decided by the Council of States Gen-Lex Commission.