CRAG

Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)

Information
Campus UAB (Barcelona)

climate change, natural sciences, gene editing, microbiology, chemistry, transgenics
Contact
Muriel Arimon Bedós
Head of Communication and Open Science
muriel.arimon@cragenomica.es
+34 935 636 600 ext. 3033
CRAG Communication
communication@cragenomica.es

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SMC participants

Emeritus researcher at the Centre for Research in Agrigenomics (CRAG)

President of the Committee for Research Integrity in Catalonia (CIR-CAT)

CSIC researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Agrigenómica and member of COSCE

Contents related to this centre
Transgenic crops

An international team of researchers publishes a review of the complex environmental impacts of genetically modified crops in the journal Science. According to the study, widespread adoption by some of the world's largest agricultural countries has had mixed results for biodiversity, deforestation and human health, depending on the specific characteristics of these crops and the regions involved. 

tomates cherry

The Spanish Confederation of Scientific Societies (COSCE) has just published a report, submitted to the EU, which proposes and compares different possibilities for reform of the regulatory framework for genome editing techniques.