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Clare O'Dea

Clare reports on scientific developments in Switzerland

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Swiss GMO ban: ‘What are we afraid of?’

This content was published on The head of the Swiss federal body for agriculture research has expressed frustration at the government’s plan to extend the moratorium on GM plants.

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Four scientific reasons to be cheerful

This content was published on I don’t think I’m the only one feeling beset on all sides by negative news right now. That's why I've chosen four uplifting science stories.

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How food is being reimagined in Switzerland

This content was published on Some of the new innovations have to be tasted to be believed. Like the chicken substitute being produced by the young team behind Planted AG in Zurich, a spin-off of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Before I met co-founders Pascal Bieri and Lukas Böni, I popped into a Zurich café to try their product.…

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Quiet and alone in a Swiss room

This content was published on Best-selling author of The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, Susan Jane Gilman, shares a scoop of the sweet treat with Clare O'Dea.

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Writer, economic migrant and orchid

This content was published on A nomadic life has shaped the world view of author Jason Donald. He tells Clare O’Dea about the ‘undeserved privilege’ that has inspired his novels.

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Investigating 10 myths about Switzerland

This content was published on After more than a decade as a journalist in Switzerland, Clare O’Dea explains what motivated her to write a new book on the country.

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Testing the limits of a 160-year-old dream

This content was published on The ragged paupers who first came to Guglera in the middle of the 19th century had a long walk up the driveway to get to the big house. So great was their need, they came before the building was even finished. The four-storey orphanage and school stood for more than a century, as generations came…

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