Upcoming

Landbouw & voeding

Governing the Transition to a Bio-Based Economy

Date: 08/20/13 to 05/23/13
Location:Switzerland
Time: 09:00 to 17:00 hour

Interdisciplinary summer school for Master and Ph.D. students as well as experts from the fields of political science, economics, law and the natural sciences.

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In the spotlight

Gezondheid

Embryos without secrets. The dilemma’s of preimplantation screening.

It will be possible to test the genome of embryo's before implantation. What are the ethical aspects of the future scenarios that accompany this development?

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Society & Genomics - Over CSG



Genomics art exhibition opened

21 Jun 2011

The pieces of art made by the winners of the first Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award can now be seen in Museum Naturalis, the Dutch National Museum of Natural History. The exhibition was officially opened on June 16 by the Director-General of the Ministry of Education. All visitors of the museum can see with their own eyes how a fungus and a bacterium cooperate to create bio-ethanol from plastic waste, if incorporating spider silk into human skin really makes the skin bulletproof and how microscopic little worms perform an opera. For more information, visit the website of Museum Naturalis.