biotechnology has revealed that multicellular organisms can perform similar processes oe but even more powerfully. Although these creatures cannot be seen with the naked eye,
Scientists at the American biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technologies who had helped pioneer cloning in cattle,
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and the Organic Seed Alliance have been trying to stop the biotech beets since 2008. Andrew Kimbrell, the Center for Food safetys executive director, hailed Fridays decision as a major victory,
Researchers writing in Biomed Centrals open access journal Biotechnology for Biofuels describe the creation of the new S. cerevisiae strain, TMB3130,
Biotech on the Rampage! Robert Kremer, a U s. government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil,
who expressed alarm that regulators were not paying enough attention to the potential risks from biotechnology on the farm,
Biotech crop supporters say there is a wealth of evidence that the crops on the market are safe,
a scientist who served on a FDA biotech advisory subcommittee from 2002 to 2005. oethe U s. response (to questions about biotech crop safety) has been an extremely patronizing one.
According to the research, animals fed on three strains of genetically modified maize created by the U s. biotech firm Monsanto suffered signs of organ damage after just three months.
Jeremy Schmutz, the studys first author and a DOE JGI scientist at the Hudsonalpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama, said that the soybean sequencing was the largest plant project done to date at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. oeit
said co-author Gary Stacey, Director, Center for Sustainable Energy and Associate Director and National Center for Soybean Biotechnology,
and oil, said Tom Clemente, Professor, Center for Biotechnology, Center for Plant science Innovation at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. oewith the combination of informatics,
but now a team from Germany s Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB has developed a way to print capillaries with a 3-D printer.
and has a growing biotechnology base, according to the city. Yokohama has nine main business districts and exports many cars and auto parts.
#USDA Outsources Biotech Crop Evaluation to the GMO Industry What kind of logic prevails when environmental impact statements on biotech crops are outsourced to the GMO industry itself?
According to Karen Batra of the Biotechnology industry Organization Oregon-based ag journal Capitol Press, Under the agencys new two-year pilot project, biotech developers would conduct their own environmental assessment of transgenic crops
Later on in the discussion, they talk more about how groups of both the biotech and organic sectors should have smaller meetings,
to be the token organic representatives in a room full of biotech interests, lending credibility to this farce of a discussion
start to lookaway from more biotechnology as a solution and toward more sustainable (and better understood) techniques like using cover crops.
Environmental and public health advocates are concerned about the safety of biotechnology already in the field, while agribusiness pushes forward with more new products.
backed by Britain s Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council, is aimed at developing an artificial leaf that produces a dense,
which give biotech firms the power to criminalize the age-old practice of seed-saving as patent infringement.#
including natural foods, computer storage, biotech, and now Internet companies. It s the original home of Ball aerospace (one of the first NASA contractors
as a biochemistry professor in 1980, helped start the biotech firm Amgen. His cofounders decided to put company headquarters in Thousand Oaks
and of the university s biology departments would go on to start biotech firms, including Applied Biosystems, Dharmacon, Myogen,
Newman s biotech company is creating new organisms, most forms of genetically modified yeast, at the dizzying rate of more than 1, 500 a day.
Newman was working in a chemical engineering lab run by biotech pioneer Jay Keasling and helping conduct research on how to rewrite the metabolic pathways of microorganisms to produce useful substances.
Other biotech executives say they are sympathetic, but that it is the price of progress.
and will be run by Arthur Levinson, chairman and ex-CEO of biotech company Genentech. Google gave exclusive access to Time magazine for a story on the new venture.
With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology, I believe we can improve millions of lives.
there s no guarantee of success. India s Emami Biotech had grand plans to open a US $80 million biofuel plantation in Ethiopia,
The case of cotton in Burkina faso highlights biotechnology s potential. Breaking ranks with other governments in the region, Burkina approved genetically modified cotton several years ago,
In 1996, for example, biotechnology firm Monsanto of St louis, Missouri, introduced the first of its popular Roundup Ready products:
#New protein discovery could change biotech forever The quest started with trying to make better yogurt.
The biotech revolution that created drugs like EPO for anemia and interferon for multiple sclerosis and crops like Monsanto s Roundup Ready soybeans was based on relatively crude methods for inserting a gene from one organism into another.
biotech is currently accelerating four times faster than digital technology, and the revival of extinct species is
Includes the broad redefinition and expansion of biotechnology, with the ultimate goals of being able to design,
The study was funded by the National institutes of health and by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council of the United kingdom. Pass it on:
With the help of two leading taxonomy institutions (Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures in The netherlands and NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information) we analyzed the quality of the data with an approach that we describe in detail in our paper.
In each case researchers encountered problems that needed to be overcome with trial and error said Dr. Robert Lanza chief scientific officer at the biotech company Advanced Cell Technology which works on cell therapies
An expert on sustainable agriculture and the potential environmental risks of biotechnology Mellon holds a doctorate in molecular biology and a law degree.
Only this year did agricultural biotech company Monsanto introduce its first drought-tolerant seed variety Droughtgard.
Several Southeast Asian countries stopped imports of wheat from the U s. Pacific Northwest pending investigation financially hurting American farmers according to the Associated press. Agriculture biotechnology giant Monsanto uses high-handed legal
crop improvement by the modern molecular techniques of biotechnology is safe the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said in a 2012 statement.
Now advances in biotechnology could enable scientists to bring extinct animals back from the grave.
The strain of GM wheat found in Oregon was developed by the biotechnology company Monsanto officials confirmed.
In order for Monsanto to gain approval to grow GM wheat to sell the company would need to petition the U s. Department of agriculture said Gregory Jaffe director of the Project on Biotechnology at the Center for Science
and the potential environmental risks of biotechnology holding a doctorate in molecular biology and a law degree.
and biotechnology all of which we must embrace all together now to feed the world. What gets under my skin is that the phrase is used so often by advocates of high-input American corn
Our research at the Centre of Excellence for Postharvest Biotechnology at Nottingham University s Malaysia Campus is making these natural products into nano-forms or submicron particles to control postharvest diseases.
As president of the American Soybean Association he also tries to keep up with everything from biotechnology advances to biodiesel policy changes.
I studied animal biotechnology and conservation at Delaware Valley College in Pennsylvania but I was on track to being a zookeeper even before that as a student at John Bowne High school in Queens.
and protein According to a 2011 article in the journal of Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology banana peels also have various bioactive compounds like polyphenols carotenoids and others.
and the infrastructure to support them, the broader application of biotechnologies and expanding broadband connectivity.</
and that the national bans are effectively denying countries that use biotechnology in agriculture the access to the European market they are allowed under trade rules.
and many of its governments, have long been hostile to agricultural biotechnology. A number of member states did not implement the EU's decision to approve MON801 in 1998,
Medimmune, a biotechnology firm in Gaithersburg, Maryland, wins a $90 million contract from the federal government to begin developing a live attenuated vaccine for H1n1.
What is the place of biotechnologies in Africa? In today's African agriculture, biotechnologies are not crucial.
The current gap between the one tonne per hectare and the five tonnes that is possible can be bridged with conventional agriculture.
Biotechnology continues to be funded the top sector, receiving $905 million in the third quarter a 4%decrease from the second quarter.
despite clearance from the nation's top biotechnology regulator. The 14 october ruling by the Genetic engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) granted permission for Indian farmers to grow a transgenic version of aubergine,
The GM brinjal variety was developed by Mahyco Monsanto Biotech, a joint venture between Jalna-based Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company and US seed giant Monsanto.
says Chavali Kameswara Rao, secretary of the Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education in Bangalore.
Sequenom, a biotechnology firm in San diego, California, has cleared out its top executives after an internal investigation found lax oversight of faulty research.
Biotech boost: The European life-sciences sector was perked up by its first large initial public offering for almost two years, after Belgian biotech firm Movetis raised  85 million (US$128 million) on its 3 december debut.
Backed by venture-capital investment, Movetis has European approval to market a constipation drug, prucalopride (Resolor).
and the biotech firm LS9 of South San francisco, California, among others describe a potential solution:
but some scientists say that it will set back Indian plant-biotechnology research. On 9 february, environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced an indefinite moratorium on the cultivation of a transgenic version of aubergine,
and was developed by Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech, a joint venture between the Jalna-based Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company and the US seed giant Monsanto,
project director for plant biotechnology at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in New delhi.
But Chaveli Kameswara Rao, secretary of the Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education a biotech advocacy group based in Bangalore,
believes that it will have a broader impact. A lot of people in crop biotech will be devastated. No money will come for research,
and students rushing to get degrees in biotechnology will stop, he says. It is bad for the country.
But Maharaj Kishan Bhan, secretary for the Indian government's Department of Biotechnology which, together with ICAR, funds the majority of GM crop research disagrees.
I do not think our funding will told decrease, he Nature. This year we are putting maximum emphasis on research in agricultural and environmental biotechnology.
Fate Therapeutics, a biotech company based in San diego, California, has been granted the first US patent for genetic reprogramming technology to create induced pluripotent stem (ips) cells.
Jimmy Suttie, science and technology general manager for Agresearch's applied biotechnologies group, acknowledges this possibility.
The effects of the recession have prompted Arizona State university in Tempe to withdraw from a much-heralded medical school partnership designed to boost biotechnology research in Phoenix (see Nature 446,971-972;
and $15 million to the University of Colorado at Boulder for a new biotechnology facility housing 60 faculty members and more than 500 graduate students, researchers and support staff.
the agricultural biotech giant based in St louis, Missouri (see chart). Some farmers aren't seeing big yield increases with the company's new herbicide-tolerant soya bean line, Roundup Ready 2 Yield.
Efforts by the biotechnology company, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to clean the plant will cause shortages of three drugs,
Biotech boost: Amgen has secured regulatory approval from the European commission for denosumab (Prolia), the California-based drug company's treatment for osteoporosis. The monoclonal antibody will be used to treat postmenopausal women who have increased an risk of fractures,
and biotechnology research costs is fuelling a boom in the contract research organization (CRO) industry.
According to an August 2009 report by London-based market analysts Business Insights, CROS accounted for 20%of the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development budget in 2008.
The ruling is being viewed as the first test of the European union's biotechnology directive, passed in 1998,
Monsanto were hoping for a broad interpretation of the biotechnology directive, which says: The protection conferred by a patent on a product containing
The court decision also highlights existing uncertainties in the biotechnology directive, such as its hazy definition of'genetic material',
a plant scientist who is director of the National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology and a known proponent of GM CROPS.
Devinder Sharma, chairman of the Delhi-based Forum for Biotechnology and Food security, a group of scientists that is against GM CROPS
written by Kumar for the magazine Biotech News, and The Development and Regulation of Bt Brinjal in India by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, a lobby group based in Ithaca, New york,
and funded by biotechnology corporation Monsanto, headquartered in St louis, Missouri. Kumar had contributed also to this second report.
The interacademy report and the Biotech News article both contain the lines: Bt brinjal...has been subjected to a rigorous biosafety regulatory process encompassing all aspects of toxicity, allergenicity, environmental safety, socioeconomic assessment etc.
Kumar told Nature that the plagiarism was unintentional, and that he did not feel he had to reword statements of fact before submitting them for inclusion in the academies'report.
But the future of Uganda's biotechnology advances remains uncertain. Scientifically, Uganda is one of Africa's leaders in developing GM varieties of local staples.
executive director of the African Biotechnology Stakeholders Forum, which is based in Nairobi. They have built their own local capacity,
based on a biotechnology and biosafety policy adopted in 2008, that would allow controlled commercial releases of GM CROPS.
Business Biotech bid On 8 december US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & johnson issued a long-awaited public offer to buy Crucell,
a biotechnology firm headquartered in Leiden, The netherlands. Johnson & johnson, in New brunswick, New jersey, offered to pay ¢ 1. 75 billion (US$2. 3 billion) for Crucell,
The USDA let biotech'stecklings'be planted, which are designed to produce GM seeds, not sugar beet directly.
opting for biotech cotton. Sweden also made its first foray into commercial GM CROPS, planting the'Amflora'high-starch potato.
European networks The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) said on 14 april that it is considering eight areas 墉 including biotechnology, smart cities and ageing 墉 in which to fund new
whereas biotechnology 墉 a growing sector for other nations 墉 made up only 3%of claims.
or using biotechnology to alter its genome and increase its nutritional yield, explains Pena-Rosas.
Anything that involves biotechnology involves a level of controversy, explains Kent. But we need to be open and data-focused.
Its last major deal was an $8. 8-billion acquisition of biotech firm Millennium Pharmaceuticals,
crop scientist and head of the biotechnology centre at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in Nairobi.
but facilitating the development of biotechnology. Biotechnology has the potential to help solve some agricultural and health problems in Kenya.
So it should be harnessed, but safely, he explains. For example, Kenya is suffering from a shortage of maize
which are taking steps to improve national provision for biotechnology and biosaftey. If Kenya succeeds it will have an impact on others to follow,
says Neal Gutterson, president of Mendel Biotechnology, a company in Hayward, California, that is developing the grass as a biofuel crop.
The biosafety commission has taken a favourable position towards biotechnology in past years, helping Brazil to become the world's second-largest producer of genetically modified (GM CROPS,
Environmental groups and a presidential advisory panel, the National Council for Food security and Nutrition, have called for more transparency in biotechnology science and decision-making,
The crop, MON 810, is made by US biotech firm Monsanto, based in St louis, Missouri; the European union has approved it for planting.
Amgen shake-up Two top executives at the biotechnology giant Amgen are leaving after more than a decade in charge,
and Theresa Deisher, who runs AVM Biotechnology in Seattle, Washington. Both work on adult stem cells.
Stephen Mayfield, director of the San diego Center for Algae Biotechnology at the University of California San diego, calls the work"a very sophisticated engineering feat,
Business Cheap genomes The US$1, 000 genome has arrived according to US biotech firm Life Technologies of Carlsbad, California,
Last November, Gilead Sciences in Foster City, California, splashed out $11 billion on biotech firm Pharmasset of Princeton
agricultural biotech giant Monsanto and retailer Walmart together with producers and environmentalists to negotiate environmental certification standards for products such as soya beans, palm oil,
and pig flu deposited in the US National Center for Biotechnology Information s Influenza Virus Sequence Database between 2003 and 2011.
says Allen Van Deynze, a molecular geneticist at the Seed Biotechnology Center at the University of California,
director of animal biotechnology at the Biotechnology industry Organization based in WASHINGTON DC. Although animal-rights advocates may object to disease-model pigs,
GM soya levy The biotechnology giant Monsanto is one step closer to losing billions of dollars in revenues from its genetically modified (GM) Roundup Ready soya beans in Brazil.
Monsanto may lose GM soya royalties throughout Brazilthe biotechnology giant Monsanto is one step closer to losing billions of dollars in revenues from its genetically-modified (GM) Roundup Ready soya beans,
it could trigger cuts in funding for biotech research. For example the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa),
whether biotechnology can reverse the extinction. But scientists have made the first step: in the days after George s death, they raced to keep his cells alive,
informatics, nanotechnology, biotechnology and food safety, in addition to developing better ways to feed the world. Agricultural scientists believe it
Bristol-myers squibb and Astrazeneca, are teaming up to acquire the biotech firm Amylin, based in San diego, California, for US$5. 3 Â billion (or $7 Â billion with existing contractual obligations).
GM patent win One of the largest ever US patent settlements saw biotechnology giant Monsanto awarded $1 Â billion on 1 Â August in a dispute with chemical company Dupont
Cancer vaccine The biotech firm behind the first approved cancer vaccine will slash 41%of its workforce, after tepid sales of its Provenge (sipuleucel-T) therapy for some prostate cancers.
developed by biotech company Monsanto to resist the herbicide glyphosate and approved for animal and human consumption in the European union, United states and other countries.
former chief executives of biotechnology firm Geron, sent the company s shareholders a letter bidding for its stem-cell assets on 18 Â October.
She was one of 56 biotechnology advocates who wrote to US President Barack Obama on 15 Â September,
The Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC) supports work on GE food animals, including chickens engineered to be resistant to the bird-flu virus. A BBSRC spokesperson told Nature:"
Scientists at biotech firm Sarepta Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which makes the drug, revealed that four boys who had taken a high dose of eteplirsen for nearly a year were able to walk an average of 21 metres farther in six minutes than at the start of the trial.
Animals engineered with pinpoint accuracytwo genetically engineered farm animals reported today illustrate how far from Frankenstein s stitched-together monster animal biotechnology has come.
"The current climate for animal biotech is not very good, and therefore, we are nowhere near getting this to the consumer
Scientists fear that Kenya's recent banning of the import of genetically modified organisms (GMOS) may be a significant blow to progress on biotechnology research and development in the country.
Kinyua says biotechnology research in Kenya will continue as the ban does not infringe upon existing research and development activities.
She also thinks the directive could help intensify research to provide sufficient data and knowledge on biotechnology.
Richard Okoth, a biotechnology scientist at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, feels that the government's imposition of a ban
while continuing to fund research on biotechnology through the National Council for Science and Technology is a contradictory position.
Biotechnology research funding might be compromised, as international donors could be reluctant to provide funds following the ban,
in poor health in an unreported antibody production facility owned by California-based Santa cruz Biotechnology."
In 2012, Santa cruz Biotechnology ranked as the second-largest supplier in the US$1. 6-billion global market for research antibodies, according to an international survey by The Scientist and market-research firm Frost & Sullivan
and commercial animal facilities once or twice a year, inspected Santa cruz Biotechnology operations at least nine times in 2012.
Santa cruz Biotechnology declined Nature s request for an interview, but stated by e-mail that"all animals maintained at the ranch are reported annually to the  USDA,
Stem-cell transfer  Pioneering biotechnology company Geron is shedding its assets in human embryonic stem cells.
But even Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology giant in St louis, Missouri, was surprised by the furore that followed
If Bowman wins and observers say that is not out of the question the decision could make it harder for biotech firms to enforce patents on engineered organisms,
biotechnology firms are bracing themselves for clarifications of patents on self-replicating inventions. Without that protection, companies say,
found that investment in biotechnology and medical devices fell by 28 %and investment in clean technology declined by 35%relative to the previous quarter.
a salmon breeding and biotechnology company on the Queen Charlotte Islands in Canada, is disputing the legality of a search of its offices by the government agency Environment Canada last month.
GM crop deal Two agricultural biotechnology giants agreed on 26 Â March to settle a lengthy legal battle over patent rights to next-generation genetically modified (GM) soya beans.
says Gregory Jaffe, director of biotechnology at the Center for Science in the Public interest, a consumer group in WASHINGTON DC that monitors the regulation of GM foods.
Mark Walton, chief marketing officer at Recombinetics, an animal-biotechnology company in St paul, Minnesota, says that his company will focus initially on medical applications   using modified farm animals as disease models
GM CROPS dropped Agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto has abandoned efforts to win regulatory approval for the cultivation of new genetically modified (GM CROPS in the European union (EU). The company confirmed last week
says Michael Firko, the head of biotechnology regulation at the USDA s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
"There are folks who don t like biotechnology and who would use this as an opportunity to create problems,
Gary Nabel, a flu-vaccine researcher and chief scientific officer at the biotechnology firm Sanofi in Cambridge, Massachusetts, agrees."
that have so far been ignored by biotechnology giants.""There are any number of companies exploring new techniques to produce crops that don t trigger regulatory oversight,
For Greg Jaffe, director of biotechnology at the Center for Science in the Public interest a consumer advocacy group in Washington  DC, the news highlighted the shortcomings of the US regulatory system for GM  crops."
The genetic-modification technique used, for instance, in the Roundup Ready crops made by the biotechnology giant Monsanto,
Biotechnology labs have attempted also to use genes from plants rather than bacteria to boost EPSP-synthase production
who previously worked for biotechnology giant Monsanto for seven years.""The magazine reviewed our paper more than any other,
"I am paid a small honorarium for handling manuscripts about biotechnology on a part-time basis, after hours.
Departing head of biotech institute defends GM field trialsmaurice Moloney has led Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, UK,
I was running a biotechnology company. Then I got an e-mail from headhunters working on behalf of Rothamsted.
Fraudster punished Biotech investor David Blech is heading for prison after unsuccessfully appealing against a four-year sentence for fraud.
) Biotech blues Biotechnology company Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) has lost its chief executive, Gary Rabin, who resigned on 22 Â January.
with biotechnology rising slightly (see chart). 4 march US President Barack Obama unveils his proposed 2015 budget.
The figures were released on 13 Â February by the nonprofit International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. 462,000 Amount in US dollars pledged by donors to the Immunity Project,
Scannon a medical doctor and founder of a biotechnology company first visited Palau in 1993 as a recreational scuba diver.
and biotech worlds Shetterly wrote in her piece though her piece does little to explain why beyond the notion that powerful agricultural corporations like Monsanto are preventing research into unknown allergens that might arise from genetic engineering.
Officially known as the Farmer Assurance Provision has been derided by opponents of biotech lobbying as the âÂ#Âoemonsanto Protection Actã¢Â# as it would strip federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting
When companies like Atlantic Bioenergy Corporation and Monsanto the largest seed and biotechnology company in the world have the same interests this is unlikely to also be in the interests of the environment or farmers.
#Herd Of Secret Drug Goats Discovered At Biotech Ranchlet's say you're a giant biotech company in sunny California
When the real-life company Santa cruz Biotechnology found themselves in this position they went with option number two.
which made it obvious to everyone that the staff on the Santa cruz Biotechnology ranch had been blatantly lying
or a suspended license for their violations of animal welfare and for lying to the USDA but an even bigger problem (for Santa cruz Biotechnology) may come from the NIH who currently exempts off-the-shelf antibodies from the set of animal treatment rules that governs NIH-funded research.
If the NIH decides to change that rule Santa cruz Biotechnology may soon long for the simple days of USDA oversight. via Nature Liars should not prosper especially by breaking the law and
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