News & Highlights

» World Food Needs Set the Table in Vienna - International Symposium on Induced Mutations in Plants. With concerns mounting over issues of food supply, scientists known as plant breeders are accelerating the search for higher yielding crops. They met this week at the IAEA in Vienna to share the latest results from field trials in countries from Asia to Africa to the Americas. Full Story »

» No Love for Deadly Mosquitoes. In steamy sites ranging from Sudan to Tahiti, Mozambique to the United States, researchers are studying the sex life of the male mosquito – in order to halt reproduction.Why? Mosquitoes can be deadly carriers of disease, including malaria and yellow fever. Full Story »

» Fruit Flies Peru.
Southern Peru’s fruit and vegetable growers are celebrating the eradication of horticultural pests, the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, and Anastrepha spp. fruit flies, after more than 20 years of hard work in their combat. Read More »

» IAEA Project Brings Embryo Transplant Technology to Sri Lanka.
Embryo transplant technology has been applied successfully for the first time in Sri Lanka, as an IAEA project produced its first calf using the technology with the aim of developing genetically selected herds that will increase milk production in the country. Read More »

» Inauguration of New IAEA Collaborating Centre in Costa Rica. On 16 July, the Centro de Investigación en Contaminación Ambiental (CICA) of the University of Costa Rica was inaugurated as an IAEA Collaborating Centre for eLearning and Accelerated Capacity Building for Food and Environmental Protection (EACB). Read More »