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Genome Editing in Agriculture: Methods, Applications, and Governance—A paper in the series on The Need for Agricultural Innovation to Sustainably Feed the World by 2050
land and water caused by global population growth, as well as the challenges climate change poses to agriculture, genome editing for crop and livestock improvement is garnering increasing attention. This ...
Heat and health in Antwerp under climate change: Projected impacts and implications for prevention.
temperature and mortality, as well as with hospital admissions for the period 2009-2013, and estimated the projected mortality in the near future and far future periods under changing climate and population, ...
Slurry photocatalytic membrane reactor technology for removal of pharmaceutical compounds from wastewater: Towards cytostatic drug elimination
compounds and their metabolites, as well as their degraded by-products have genotoxic and mutagenic effects. A major challenge of cytostatic removal stands in the fact that most drugs are delivered to ...
Scientific Statement on Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood
organic as well of inorganic nature. Based on a conservative estimate the presence of microplastics in seafood would have a small effect on the overall exposure to additives or contaminants. Toxicity and ...
Airtightness in Belgian high biocontainment facilities
techniques commercially available for decontamination and the techniques that were used for measuring the airtightness, as well as the results of the airtightness tests obtained in the different facilities, ...
Biological activity conferred by endocrine disrupting chemicals in hospital effluent and river water from the Brussels Region, Belgium
than looking solely for concentrations of targeted and well-known EDC s, this project strives to combine bio-analytical and chemo-analytical data on the Zenne river crossing Brussels and ...
Agronomic Practices for Improving Gentle Remediation of Trace Element-Contaminated Soils.
field trials demonstrating successful GRO remains well below the number of studies carried out at a greenhouse level. The move from greenhouse to field conditions requires incorporating agronomical ...
50 Hz electric and magnetic fields and health: which message to the public?
are included, as well as courses of action to be taken in front of a patient asking questions on health effects of 50 Hz electric and magnetic fields. Health Topics: Health and environment ...