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The 17th Meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics (UNIACB), hosted by UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 13-14 June 2018, identified, in particular, two topics of common interest on the possible implications of ethics: genome editing and artificial intelligence.

On May 29-31 2018, the Regional Expert Consultation on Agricultural Biotechnology to improve livelihoods of farmers in Asia-Pacific was held in Bangkok, Thailand. Martina Viviani, ICGEB Head, Technology Transfer, Fundraising and Innovation, reports.

Suresh Nair, ICGEB New Delhi was on the panel at the STI Forum for sustainable terrestrial ecosystems at the UN in New York last week for the SDGs.

A protfolio of curriculum-based modules encompassing the biosafety of genetically modified organisms, and related matters in biosecurity, public health, natural resource managament, biocontrol and bioremediation has been launched by the Biosafety Group at ICGEB.

The 24th session of the ICGEB Board of Governors was held in Trieste and brought together Government Representatives and high standing scientists in the field of Life Sciences from across its 60 Member strong constituency.

Thirteen members of the ICGEB CSA are at the ICGEB New Delhi Component this week to discuss the work programme and review the research undertaken during the period 2015-2017.

The Microbial Engineering Group at ICGEB New Delhi, headed by Syed Shams Yazdani also runs the DBT-ICGEB Advanced Bioenergy Research programme.

This week in China, Mauro Giacca, Director-General and Lawrence Banks, ICGEB Scientific Coordinator met with Chinese Officials.