Italian-born population geneticist, Professor at Stanford University from 1970 and Member of the ICGEB Council of Scientific Advisers from 1985-2005, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza has passed away at the age of 96.
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ICGEB New Delhi at World Biofuel Day
On World Biofuel day, 10 August 2018, Shashi Kumar, Group Leader, Metabolic Engineering lab at ICGEB New Delhi, and a group 30 colleagues who work in the field at the ICGEB attended the events at the Science Auditorium in Delhi, to interact with Indian Government Ministers and hear the address by Indian Prime Minister Modi in person.
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PNAS QnAs with Rafael Radi – Unbound Medicine
Rafael Radi, Director of the Dept. of Biochemistry at the University of the Republic of Uruguay has been serving as Member of the ICGEB Council of Scientific Advisers since 2010. Read the interview published in PNAS on his work on free radicals, oxidants and reduction/oxidation pathways in biomedicine.
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Biosafety Reviews – ICGEB releases Volume 10. Online Resources for Biosafety and Risk Assessment
The compilation of scientific studies on areas of major interest for biosafety and risk assessment, prepared by internationally-recognised scientists, has been released by the Biosafety Group in Trieste.
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Nico Blanco, ICGEB Alumnus reports on his experience as a SMART Fellow
by Nico Blanco, ICGEB SMART FELLOW (Reporting on his First Semester 2018, at the Institute of Botany, Bratislava, Slovakia)
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Together for Impact: UK-India partnership; ICGEB’s testimony
To mark a decade of UK-India research and innovation partnership, UK Research and Innovation, British High Commission, released the #Togetherforimpact video: an inspiring testimony of an impactful partnership.
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ICGEB at the Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva for BWC discussions
Alessandro Marcello, ICGEB Group Leader, delivers a statement at this year’s Meeting of Experts to strengthen cooperation and assistance under Article X of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
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ICGEB Cape Town at National Science Week South Africa
This week at the University of Mpumalanga, Nelspruit, South Africa, ICGEB Cape Town is engaging with young, budding scientists at the South African Agency for Science & Technology Advancement National Science Week.
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Italy-Slovenia Inter-Regional funded project SUSGRAPE makes good headway
SUSGRAPE is an Interreg funded project of the ICGEB Bacteriology lab in Trieste, that aims to lower the use of chemical substances and Co2 emissions in grapevines and to study the development of new pesticides.
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All eyes on Trieste: ICGEB at ESOF2020
Trieste, Italy: European City of Science, will host the EuroScience Open Forum, originally scheduled from 4 to 10 July, 2020, the event is now due to take place between 2-6 September 2020. The biennial pan-European meeting is dedicated to research and innovation – and the discovery of future directions in science.
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Indian industrial partners complete one-month’s training in ICGEB Biotech Development Unit
The Biotechnology Development Unit (BDU) has just successfully completed one month’s training by four industrial partner employees from India.
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ICGEB Regulatory Science across the African Continent
Recent reports on ICGEB’s Regulatory Science capacity building projects in sub-Saharan Africa
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