A number of biotechnology companies are not willing to make huge investments with their own money in AIDS vaccine research due to scientific and financial risks. Here are figures to prove this. In the year 2005, biotechnology companies spent about ten...
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Biomedical leaders and international experts have come together in Singapore for a seminar for discussing the state of biotechnology and sharing their vision for the technology with post graduates coming from seventeen countries. Thye would be throwing...
Intercytex which is a biotechnology firm is coming up with a robot for treating baldness and has landed up with £1.85m aid from the government. Under a test undertaken the company took hair follicle from the back of the neck, multiplied them and then...
Fresh financial threat is circling the pharmaceutical industry which is facing tremendous political pressure for producing generic biotechnology. As of now the market for biotech drugs is around $60bn and the Access to Life-Saving Medicines Act has...
The biotechnology sector is on the rise. A number of companies situated on the east and west coast of U.S. are churning out a number of things ranging from new types of corns to papayas, home pregnancy tests and a possible cure for AIDS.
On the...
A new website called www.marinebiotech.org has been launched by the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Media Lab which focuses on the environmental and medical aspects of the emerging field of marine biotechnology.
This site can help people...
Cuba would be helping Vietnam in designing and building of a biotechnology center and would also be training their staff. Ripoll would be heading a Cuban delegation to the Vietnam-Cuba Intergovernmental Commission for the purpose of Technical, Economic...
Puerto Rico has been named as the Bio Island by Anibal Acevedo-Vila, Governor, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He stated that the Island was committed to establishing itself as a global hub for life sciences and biotechnology. Puerto Rico was committed to...
Though the awareness of biotechnology has been low in Nepal but some government institutes and private sector labs have tried to make some in inroads in this sector. The Nepalese government would be setting up a national biotechnology R&D center as the...
It is being said that biotechnology poses threats to arms control in the coming decades. There are chances that biotechnology could be misused by some people who might be having the necessary technical competence. The threats are being posed by the...
With every country trying to make a mark in the field of biotechnology, South Africa has a different story to tell. South Africa's private sector seems to lag behind the public sector on R&D in the biotechnology sector. There are facts to prove this....
In a recent development, Cytos Biotechnology has created a drug called CYT003-QbG10 which bamboozles the body into changing tactics in order to focus on tackling the larger threats rather production of allergic reactions to less harmful things....
A Halifax based biotech company has been successful in destroying huge cancer tumors in mice with their new vaccine technology. The company called ImmunoVaccine Technologies is soon expected to start Phase I clinical trials of its technology on human...
As per a report by Robert Wisner of Iowa State University introduction of GM wheat in U.S. would hit the export trade of the country in durum and hard red spring wheat and would also affect the prices of these variety of wheat.
The report further...
Realizing the needs of the biotechnology sector in Flanders, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) is coming up with a new bio-incubator in the technology park in Zwijnaarde. The new bio-incubator would enable to start up new...
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