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Register for free for the upcoming talk by Markus Schmidt about "Gene Editing: From Bioprocess Engineering to Human Enhancement" at the The Institution of Engineering and Technology on Thursday May 12th (online). Book your place at bit.ly/3ylPfjx #Networklearncollaborate

Check this recent paper about biosafety standards in synbio by Lei Pei, @MichGarfinkel and Markus Schmidt partly coming out of Newcotiana

Cosmetics: when biotech is better than nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢 Still on time to register for the Plant Synthetic Biology Conference in Barcelona! 🌱🌿🧪🧬🖥️ #PlantSynBio2022BCN 🗓️19-21 September 2022 📌 CRAG, Barcelona Spain Organized jointly by CRAG and CEPLAS 🏆 Fantastic line-up of speakers ℹ️ plantsynbio2022.cragenomica.es

Still on time to respond to the EC public consultation on New Breeding Techniques. Have your say in the next 72 hours CTAEX BioFaction IBMCP - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular Louis Notley BOKU University ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette…

have your say. Still on time until July 22nd. Legislation for plants produced by certain new genomic techniques ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette…

Virus-derived systems have emerged as an interesting alternative for delivering CRISPR components to plant cells. Selma et al. present a potato virus X-derived vector as vehicle for the delivery of gRNAs, for highly specific virus-induced gene activation: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15…

People in USA will be able to grow GM purple tomatoes in their gardens! jic.ac.uk/press-release/…

Our October issue takes stock of the opportunities and challenges of Cellular Agriculture for sustainable food systems. Check it out here: nature.com/natfood/volume… #diet #sustainability #FoodSystems #food #lab #food #meat

#SOL2022 Toni Granell continues with his presentation about biofortified tomatoes with increased levels of flavonoids, crocins and branched-chain amino acids. One goal was the engineering of a herbicide tolerant tomato with a mutation in the ALS gene.

Thanks to dorzaez and CTAEX for organizing our final meeting (in Badajoz, Spain), the first physical meeting in 3 years!

After the meeting: time to learn about local agricultural produce from Badajoz and tasting.

🟢Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias Extremadura participa en las jornadas Newcotiana, el proyecto europeo que estudia un uso alternativo a la planta del tabaco 📍En CTAEX

During the final Newcotiana meeting this week at CTAEX we received the visit of Guillermo Fdez Vara, president of Extremadura, who showed great interest in our reseach project

Badajoz artist Ramón de Arcos produced this excellent watercolor piece explaining our Newcotiana project. Thanks Ramón!!

This is the english translation of the beautiful watercolor piece that Ramón de Arcos created to explain our Newcotiana project . Thanks Ramón!! IBMCP - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular CTAEX

Mission acomplished (II). It has been great to share a couple of days with our partners and friends in the Newcotiana final meeting in Badajoz, dicusssing great science, but also enjoying local delicatessen