The new Bio-Scope website has everything you can possibly want to know about crop biotechnology. Surfing to http://www.bio-scope.org gives you access to a large amount of scientific information, including a content database, of use to people with various degrees of education in biotechnology. Bio-Scope also has a discussion forum on various levels of scientific understanding.
The site is also a meeting place for experts, a place where everybody can learn about important meetings on biotechnology. It also publishes unbiased and daily updated accounts on important publications, from newspapers to scientific publications. Last but not least, it is the place where a growing number of experts is willing to answer questions forwarded to them via Bio-Scope. It offers all this information in 3 languages : German, English and French

We would also like to draw your attention to a very handy portal website and agro-food biotech : http://special.northernlight.com/gmfoods , with a large number of useful links and an 'Overview, Recent Editorials and Journal Articles, Biotech Industry positions, ethical and religious issues, health & safety, farming & food security and a lot more. The site is quite regularly updated.

http://www.techcentralstation.be Tech Central Station is a news web portal to help provide analysis, research and commentary to understand how technology is changing and shaping our world. There is also a special section on Biotech.

In case you do not really know very much about biotech (do not worry: you are not alone !), just try your luck with one of the following websites:

Biotechnology Resources website offers you biotechnology related news, books and web resources on different areas of biotechnology.
www.qozi.com/biotechnology/

"Test Achat" website concerning GMO's
This 'Test-Achat' consumer site answers the most important questions regarding GMOs based on existing scientific knowledge. It examines how and in which conditions modern biotechnology could possibly make a contribution to good and accessible healthcare, sufficient high quality food, and to an appropriate level of welfare and wellbeing in general.
www.gmo-ogm.org/default_WITH_FLA.html

About Blue biotechnology

The Other Bioindustry Associations

Canadian Biotech Association
BIOTECanada, is not nearly as extensive as its US counterpart, but it is very useful and very efficient. One asset esp. for the French speakers among you: it is bilingual!
www.biotech.ca

US-Biotechnology Industry Organization
is a goldmine of –frequently updated- information. Want to know which ag biotech products will be on the market within six years, how a biotech drug is developed ? It is all there, just as information on ethical and legislative issues, the 1999 list of approved biotech drugs, information about environmental and industrial applications of biotechnology, DNA fingerprinting and much, much more.
www.bio.org

Other interesting links

www.scidev.net
SciDev.Net - News, views and information about science, technology and development

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