Focused on the intersection of ethics, law and science, Umbria-based OrvietoScienza has highlighted new frontiers of ethics where scientists – and TWAS – can make a difference

Lo IAP - il network gobale delle accademie scientifiche - ha pubblicato una dichiarazione dal titolo "Potenzialità della biologia di sintesi a livello globale: opportunità scientifiche e governance".

La biologia di sintesi non è altro che l’ideazione e la messa a punto di sistemi biologici e biochimici personalizzati in grado di svolgere funzioni nuove o migliorate.

In a major statement, the global network representing over 100 science academies describes the support and governance needed to advance an emerging – and highly promising – area of science.

An educational institute co-organized by TWAS is designed to train and support bioscience leaders in a vitally important developing region.

Quattro membri della TWAS siedono nel comitato scientifico consultivo delle Nazioni Unite, da poco costituito per fornire al segretario generale U.N. Ban Ki-moon supporto scientifico su temi di impatto mondiale

The African Academy of Sciences will hold a workshop on stem cell research and regenerative medicine from 16 to 18 June in Nairobi, Kenya. Nomination deadline: 15 May.

Four TWAS Fellows have been named to the new UN Scientific Advisory Board. Their assignment: provide expertise on global challenges to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Particle physicist Shih-Chang Lee says that his election as a TWAS Fellow shows that Taiwan, China, is achieving international standards in science.

New TWAS Fellow Evelyne Mbede, a volcanologist, is making a difference in people's lives in Tanzania.