Editorial: Biotechnology as an enabling technology and much more

Editorial : Schools as enabling environments

The do‐it‐yourself movement as a source of innovation in biotechnology – and much more

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. This celebrated quote from Linus Pauling summarizes one of the key drivers of innovation. Breakthroughs and major advances in biotechnology (and science in general) can often be traced to specific individuals who had one sparkling thought that did work – out of an ocean of failures and ideas too heretical to share with the establishmen...

[L'Encéphale 1906-2016…Much more than an anniversary: An editorial renewal].

En 2016, la principale raison d’être de L’Encéphale demeure plus ue jamais de s’inspirer des tendances actuelles de la psychiatrie. our répondre à cette exigence, nous avons entrepris depuis pluieurs mois un travail de réforme éditoriale qui sera visible pour os lecteurs dans le numéro 2 de cette année et illustrée par une aquette revisitée, accompagnée d’une nouvelle mise en page des rticles. ...

Editorial overview: Food biotechnology.

Recent and ongoing developments in the area of food biotechnology could help us meet at least some of these challenges: Among many other topics, current efforts include the development of plants having an enhanced nutritional value or the design and construction of microbial strains for the environmental-friendly production of food and feed additives, such as flavors, colorants, amino acids and...

Editorial overview: energy biotechnology.

The world population of approx. 7.1 billion will grow by 17–54% by 2050. The world economy in 2050 will be four times larger than today and is projected to need 80% more energy in 2050. And, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are on track to increase by 50%, primarily due to growth in energy-related CO2 emissions. The current boom in petroleum resources extracted by enhanced hydrocarbon reco...