I am not fooling around with you- researchers at the Montana State University have figured out a way for fooling the immune system so that it turns out to be tolerant. This process is expected to enable people to tolerate rather than overreact to...
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The time ahead is quite tough. Come 2025 and there would be two billion mouths which would have to be fed and for this purpose the food production would have to be doubled over the next twenty five years to feed them. There is a need to bring...
The specialty drugs seem to be putting pressure on insurance premiums. These drugs which are being used for treating rare diseases is building pressure on the health insurance and is making it costly for everybody. In some of the cases the cost of the...
Is anyway spirituality related to biotechnology? You don't know the answer but a molecular biologist from Princeton University states that spiritual beliefs plays an important role in deciding whether people accept or reject biotechnology in the field...
The interim analysis of the study of Rituxan therapy in people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis has yielded positive results when compared with the previous instance where patients did not react adequately to the treatment with TNF antagonist...
Up till now there was a general opinion that Cuba was misusing biotechnology but this is far from true as Cuba has been utilizing biotechnology for the welfare of the mankind. In fact it has been using for fighting diseases and developing the country....
As a consumer do you feel as if you are a paying a hell lot for your medication? If yes, the soon you will get relief as Democratic control of Congress is expected to support a legislation which will allow generic versions of popular biotech drugs and...
When in 2005, farmers had brought ninety million hectares under GM crop, five European countries were also party to it. Though the U.K government feels that there is no scientific finding which calls for blanket ban on GM crops still GM crop is not...
A number of challenges and opportunities are being presented by the CRO market and would certainly aid the biotechnology sector in achieving objectives with services that would cut down the cost and time for marketing drugs. CROs are all set to cash in...
Cuba is working towards creation of a vaccine which is effective against dengue. The country is developing a number of vaccines which are in the pre clinical trial phase and if it turns out to be success then clinical trials would be conducted on human...
UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan has stated that a number of risks are being posed by the field of biotechnology. He stated that global safeguards were required to be created in order to deal with this problem.
He further stated that it could be...
It was twenty five years when the patent for seminal technique important to the field of biotechnology was awarded but now a biotechnology company has come forward to claim the patent and this has made the government wonder whether it granted the...
Taiwan is working hard to emerge as a biotechnology powerhouse. It is churning a number of products using biotechnology such as anti cancer drugs, heath foods, skin care products etc. Taiwan is trying to utilize its flora and fauna for this purpose but...
As per a study it has been found out that Orencia which is a rheumatoid arthritis drug from Bristol -Myers Squibb has been found out to be effective in curing kids too. The study was conducted on children between the ages of six to seventeen and it was...
A new technique has been developed by Indian scientists for treating cancer causing tumors by using garlic compound. These two scientists have been studying the effect of garlic based components on cancer cells since 1998.
In this treatment a...
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