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- UC San Diego Undergraduates Forge New Area Of Bioinformatics (Medical News Today)
- Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:19:14 GMT - A group of undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the July issue of the journal Genome Research.
- Undergraduates Forge New Area Of Bioinformatics (Science Daily)
- Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:10:41 GMT - A group of undergraduate students have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the journal Genome Research.
- Dublin, Ireland July 4, 2008 Scientists from all over the world will travel to Ireland in August for the Agricultural ... (SeedQuest)
- Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:07:18 GMT - (ABIC). Exciting new developments in biotechnology will be presented and discussed over the three-day conference which takes place in University College Cork beginning on Sunday, 24 August 2008.
- Waters India to tap proteomics research prospects with its package of solutions (PharmaBiz)
- Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:38:38 GMT - Waters India is now is aggressively pursuing opportunities to expand its proteomics business in the country.
- International Guidelines Will Promote Food Safety Of Plant And Animal Biotech Products (Medical News Today)
- Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:07:30 GMT - The Biotechnology Industry Organization congratulates the Codex Alimentarius Commission for approving key guidelines to further promote the safety of products from agricultural plant and animal biotechnology. The Codex Commission took final action at its 31st session in Geneva, Switzerland.
- Chemokine gets US patent for stem cell technique (PharmaBiz)
- Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:47:57 GMT - Chemokine Therapeutics Corp., a biotechnology company developing chemokine-based therapies to treat cancer, blood disorders and vascular diseases, announced that it has been granted US Patent No. 7,378,098.
- Closing Glance: Biotechnology (INO News)
- Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:37:29 GMT - (AP:NEW YORK) Shares of biotechnology companies closed lower with the broader market Wednesday as oil prices hit a new record and May factory orders showed the weakest performance in three months.
- Mayo, company seek melanoma cancer vaccine (Post-Bulletin)
- Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:16:39 GMT - A biotechnology company and Mayo Clinic are working towards a Phase I clinical trial of an "immunotherapeutic" vaccine for melanoma cancer
- Opening Glance: Biotechnology (INO News)
- Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:08:03 GMT - (AP:NEW YORK) Shares of biotechnology companies opened mixed Wednesday, while the broader market rose ahead of a Commerce Department report on factory orders that could give another glimpse of how the economy is faring.
- Opening Glance: Biotechnology (INO News)
- Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:50:32 GMT - (AP:NEW YORK) Shares of biotechnology companies opened mixed Wednesday, while the broader market rose ahead of a Commerce Department report that could show a slowdown in factory orders.
- Cloned horses latest move for controversial field
- Friday Mar 31, 2006 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The company that cloned the first horse to be sold commercially said on Thursday it plans to market 22 similar animals before 2008, marking another step forward for the controversial technology.
- Biologists Take Big Step to Keep Park's Little Cutthroats From Being Devoured
- Tuesday Nov 8, 2005 - YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - An unusual fishing season just ended on Yellowstone Lake. The take included 36,000 lake trout caught, killed and sunk to the bottom of the lake. And the fishers are not finished.
- A Special Drug Just for You, at the End of a Long Pipeline
- Tuesday Nov 8, 2005 - A new drug for acne, Aczone, was approved in July, but with a catch. The Food and Drug Administration said it would require that patients first be tested for an enzyme deficiency that could put them at risk of developing anemia from the drug.
- U.S. companies to launch corn-based socks in Japan
- Tuesday Nov 8, 2005 - TOKYO (Reuters) - The Chicago White Sox may have won baseball's World Series, but the corn socks are coming to Japan. Biodegradable socks, made from corn-derived fiber and manufactured by U.S. hosiery makers, should make their worldwide debut on Japanese store shelves sometime next year, industry officials said on Tuesday.
- New "chip" could provide quick bird flu test
- Tuesday Nov 8, 2005 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new "chip" can test for 11 different influenza strains, including avian flu, in less than a quarter of the time it now takes to diagnose flu in patients, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
- Prince Charles urges environment moves
- Tuesday Nov 8, 2005 - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, toured a landmark San Francisco building renovated to showcase organic foods on Monday and followed the visit by telling California business leaders that urgent action is needed to address environmental challenges.
- Past pandemics that ravaged Europe
- Monday Nov 7, 2005 - In 430BC, during the Peloponnesian war against their great rival Sparta, the people of Athens were hit by a deadly disease that has defied diagnosis to this day.
- U. makes a healing 'bio-paper'
- Saturday Nov 5, 2005 - (Deseret Morning News) An emerging branch of medicine called "organ printing" takes a patient's own healthy cells and uses a printer, cell-based "bio-ink" and "bio-paper" to create tissue to repair a damaged organ.
- Americans split over buying cloned meat: poll
- Friday, Nov 4, 2005 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two-thirds of U.S. consumers said they would either buy or consider buying meat and milk made from cloned animals if the U.S. government declared cloning safe, according to the results of a public opinion poll released on Friday.
- EU authorizes GMO maize type by legal rubberstamp
- Monday, August 8, 2005 - The European Union authorized imports of a genetically modified (GMO) maize on Monday, the third GMO product to win approval since the EU ended its unofficial biotech ban last year, officials said.
- Cloning Man’s Best Friend
- Friday, August 6, 2005 - Hwang Woo-suk, the stem-cell pioneer who led the team that cloned the world’s first dog, explains why they did it and why they believe Snuppy could benefit all of mankind.
- Ghana stops importation of GM Foods
- Thursday, July 28, 2005 - Ghana has taken a strong stance against the importation and cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) foods in Ghana.
- GM potato uses frog gene to resist pathogens
- Thursday, July 28, 2005 - A chemical that South American frogs excrete from their skin could protect potatoes and other crops from a range of diseases, according to biotechnologists in Canada.
- Skin Cancer Breakthrough in an Egg
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 - CHICKEN eggs containing a drug that can target and treat skin cancer have been produced by Scottish scientists.
- Pakistan, India And US Biotechnology Ties
- Monday, July 11, 2005 - All three countries Pakistan, India and USA are building closer science ties with each other in a range of fields spanning crops biotechnology to overcome its agriculture issues. Pakistan stands to gain tremendously from the tripartite planning meeting on agricultural biotechnology held at Lahore at the end of May 2005.
- ARS to be part of new team improving Cassava
- Friday, July 11, 2005 - Cassava, one of the most important food crops in Africa, is about to undergo an extreme makeover in a multimillion-dollar project that will include an Agricultural Research Service scientist as part of the interdisciplinary team.
- Biotech acreage on the rise across U.S.
- Saturday, July 09, 2005 - As part of the latest NASS acreage survey, farmers’ use of biotechnology-derived crops was detailed. The numbers aren’t growing by leaps and bounds lately, but they are growing.