If Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development is to be believed then the average cost of developing a new biotechnology product is around $1.2 billion. This is being regarded as the first comprehensive estimate in the field of biotechnology.
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Have a look. Australian government rejects subsidy for a cervical cancer vaccine and now it is being used in a campaign for promoting Australian biotechnology industry as an attractive destination for foreign companies.
Not featured in the national...
Africa is one of those continents which is not only poor but also suffers from starvation. Biotechnology has come to the rescue of millions of people who are suffering at the hands of famines and starvation out there. Efforts are underway to improve...
In 2005 around 22,000 new cases of gastric cancer surfaced in America and 11,000 patients died from this disease itself. In most of the cases the disease is discovered only during the advanced stages and methods currently being deployed for detecting...
Generex Biotechnology Corporation is conducting human clinical trials of Antigen Express synthetic avian influenza vaccine which is being regarded as one of the first studies to be conducted on man. For conducting trials, the company has entered into...
University of Colorado and University of Denver scientists are on the verge of finding out a solution to an old mechanical roadblock in the delivery of gene therapy.
Dr. Corinne Lengsfeld, Associate professor, University of Denver said:...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants that scientists should make the case for biotechnology, GM crops and other scientific developments. He stated that as a child he was quite poor in the subject and he wanted the children of the country to view...
Some hope for diabetes patients. For the first time insulin secreting cells have been created from human embryonic stem cells which could lead to the unlimited supply of cells which might be transplanted into people suffering from type 1 diabetes....
In order to clear confusion over the field of biotechnology, Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister stated that environmental and health hazards if any posed by GM rice needs to be balanced with the requirement for feeding more than a billion people in...
Up till now the Indian outsourcing industry was only concentrating on IT services but now in the future you might also see biotechnology being outsourced to Indians.
The journey in this field would not be a cakewalk as a number of challenges await...
As against the opinion of activists, the Indian government feels that GM seeds did not pose any harm to the environment and farmers would definitely benefit from it. The government wants that the ban put by apex court on conducting field trials must be...
Field trials of genetically engineered brassicas might lead to an increased resistance among pests. This was claimed by GE Free New Zealand. Researchers have produced GM broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower containing Bt bacteria which is used as a...
Scientists from South Africa are developing GM wine. For this purpose an application has been sent to the government for conducting field trials of GM grapes. In another application a former South African has applied for selling GM yeast used in...
The rice traders don't seem to be comfortable with Indian government plans of conducting field trials of GM rice as they feel it could have an impact on millions of farmers in the country. They fear that these trials could lead to the contamination of...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has come out with a drug known as IL-1 Trap which can be effectively used for treatment of CAPS or CIAS1-related autoinflammatory periodic syndromes.
It is regarded as a rare inherited spectrum of inflammatory conditions...
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