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Coronado Biosciences, a Massachusetts-based company, hopes to have results from two large studies being carried out in the US into the use of pig whipworm eggs to treat Crohn's disease by the end of the year.
 says Dr Murray Cox from the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Massey University in  New zealand."
It will be a huge victory for the biotechnology industry if a GM animal becomes available for human consumption.
belies the claims made by the biotechnology industry that its crops would be better for the environment. oethe biotech industry is taking us into a more pesticide-dependent agriculture when theyve always promised,
The biotechnology industry and its allies have pumped billions of dollars into lobbying efforts that have prevented effectively every proposal for GMO labeling from moving forward.
Meeuws and three other Dutch bioengineers have taken the concept of a greenhouse a step further, growing vegetables,
Obviously, biotech companies are thrilled with the idea#Once the industry conducts its own crop environmental impact statements
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
#for a biotech industry that has gained 7 million acres of crop cultivation in two years, but its scary for our food system.
#says a Harvard bioengineer named David Edwards . And so he has devised a way to convert foods into shell-like containers and films that he calls Wikicells.
Caribou Biosciences, to commercialize her work. In the short term, Church says, the potential of cas9 is that it could be used to study genetics in a way that was heretofore impossible.
Sangamo Biosciences has been working to commercialize the earlier zinc finger nuclease technology as a form of medicine for more than a decade.
but also for spider-venom peptides that are being considered for therapeutic use study researcher Glenn King of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland Australiaâ said in a statement.
This stands in contrast to the processes many biotech companies use that require high-purity genetically engineered cultures says Allison Pieja Director of Technology at Mango Materials.
The report predicted that this fascinating result will be used by bioengineers to improve engineering design. Well perhaps it will
Acting as a natural bioengineer in prairie landscapes they shaped plant communities transported and recycled nutrients created habitat variability that benefited grassland birds insects
and sensing plants is not at all outlandish Danny Chamovitz director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel aviv University and author of
Natalie Moll of Europabio, the biotech industry lobby group in Brussels, says that the regulatory committee's failure to bring an end to cultivation bans gives the usual European mixed signal that we have the toughest scientific approval system in the world,
For one of the new studies, Shukla and her colleagues at Dow Agrosciences teamed up with Sangamo Biosciences
At a national US ethanol conference in Orlando, Florida, last week, biotech companies Novozymes and Genencor launched new generations of enzymes that they claim will cut the enzyme-related production costs of cellulosic ethanol
Despite the recent Court of Appeal ruling in Agresearch's favour, Barry Scott, head of the Institute of Molecular Biosciences at Massey University in Palmerston North, New zealand,
however, is unlikely to be funded, according to Parag Chitnis, deputy director of the NSF's Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.
and co-founded by Jay Keasling, a bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley, the firm has engineered strains of yeast to produce hydrocarbon fuels and other chemicals from sugarcane feedstocks.
is likely to create further uncertainty within the agricultural biotechnology industry. The plan has drawn fire from all sides of the intense debate over GM CROPS, with industry officials,
Nature Newsa decision by the European Court of Justice on a DNA patent held by global seed company Monsanto has caused a stir in the biotechnology industry,
and to remove any doubts within the biotech industry. What wider impact will this decision have?
It marks a significant restriction on the powers biotech companies can wield with their patents, says Jonathan Radcliffe of UK law firm Nabarro in London.
most contacted By nature feel that the ruling will probably not dampen innovation or investment in the European biotech industry as a whole.
Pacific Biosciences, a gene-sequencing technology company in Menlo Park, California, aims to raise US$200 million in an initial public offering.
but expanding bioscience community (see'Turkish law could cripple bioscience'and'An absurd law').'The law was intended originally to control the use of GM plants in agriculture,
Steve Long, a crop scientist and deputy director of the Energy Biosciences Institute in Urbana, Illinois, says companies are struggling to overcome a suite of financial,
says Johan Botterman, head of product research at Bayer Bioscience in Ghent, Belgium. The technique is established well for many crops,
and Sangamo Biosciences in Richmond, California, announced that they had used enzymes called zinc-finger nucleases to insert a gene for herbicide resistance at a specific site in the maize genome (V. K. Shukla et al.
says Getachew Belay, biotechnology policy adviser for the Common market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) a regional trade block.
But producing biofuels from seaweed has so far proved difficult for bioengineers. Seaweed produces four kinds of sugars laminarin, mannitol, alginate and cellulose.
But one of the hardest hit is based Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, California, whose share price has fallen more than 82%since its initial public offering in October 2010.
Bioscience 62,75-84; 2012). ) Mortensen expects that increased reliance on two herbicides will favour plants with multiple mutations for resistance to each,
director of animal biotechnology at the Biotechnology industry Organization based in WASHINGTON DC. Although animal-rights advocates may object to disease-model pigs,
plans to spin off its research work into a small separate company called Neotope Biosciences, which will have its operations base in South San francisco, California,
says Heiner Niemann, a bioengineer at the Institute of Farm animal Genetics in Neustadt, Germany. The excitement surrounding these technological advances is bittersweet, however.
or even hundreds, says Harry Evans, a principal scientific officer at the Center for Agricultural Bioscience International.
Animal officials at the National institutes of health (NIH) would not comment specifically on the USDA findings or the use of Santa cruz Biotechnology products by NIH-supported researchers.
says Hans Sauer, deputy general counsel for intellectual property at the Biotechnology industry Organization, a lobby group in WASHINGTON DC.
Arcadia Biosciences, based in Davis, California, has taken a gene for an enzyme called alanine amino  transferase from barley
and his colleagues made use of historical records held by CABI (formerly known as the Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International),
In labs around the world bioengineers have begun to print prototype body parts: heart valves ears artificial bone joints menisci vascular tubes and skin grafts.
In 2000 bioengineer Thomas Boland the self-described grandfather of bioprinting eyed an old Lexmark printer in his lab at Clemson University.
Suddenly bioengineers went from drawing life on a flat canvas to building living sculptures. It was like magic says James Yoo a researcher at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine who is developing a portable printer to graft skin directly onto burn victims.
Suddenly bioengineers went from drawing life on a flat canvas to building living sculptures. A printer that can dispense the right ink in other words is only the first step.
In a similar manner bioengineers might one day incorporate sensors into other tissues for example creating a bionic meniscus that can monitor strain.
Like the techniques that made last year's burger bioengineer Johannes Tramper's proposed method starts with a small number of stem cells taken from an animal.
The aspiring plant bioengineer worked with a team of scientists to test how not getting enough water altered the quality of barley grains.
Onuchic and his colleagues at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics based at Rice's Bioscience Research Collaborative are working to fix that.
The Energy Biosciences Institute at the U. of I. supported the research. Miscanthus does almost as well in poor soils as in fertile cropland Long said.
Biotech for the development and production of their biotechnology products. He said Bio-Angle Vacs Sdn Bhd
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The Rice lab of bioengineer Jane Grande-Allen found through studies of pigs'heart valves that age plays a critical role in the valves'progressive hardening
and health benefits explained Dr. Rick Green Vice president Technology at POS Biosciences in Saskatoon co-author of the study Our results provide evidence that these fruits do in fact possess such nutritional benefits
and further develop these nutritive-rich ingredients is being sought from the recently established (2010) Global Institute for Food security (GIFS) says co-author of the study Dr. Nicholas Low a Professor of Food Chemistry at the Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences University
since support from the National Science Foundation the Department of energy Rice's Faculty Initiative Fund Rice's Shell Center for Sustainability and Rice's Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering.
Biotech companies have inserted mutated forms of a similar gene from microbes into crop plants producing#oeroundup Ready#corn
Brown is working on the project through the Energy Biosciences Institute at the U of I hoping to use the sorghum findings as a launching pad for working with complex genomes of other feedstocks.
The research was done at the Energy Biosciences Institute a collaboration in which bioscience and biological techniques are being applied to help solve the global energy challenge.
The partnership funded from the energy company BP includes researchers from the University of California Berkeley;
The researchers'work was funded partially by the Arkansas Biosciences Institute. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Arkansas Fayetteville.
and causing food supply problems if other benefits and disbenefits from revegetating agricultural landscapes are taken not also into account in land-use decisions according to an article published in the October issue of Bioscience.
Bioscience at the University of Queensland Australia and colleagues from other institutions. The small protein named orally active insecticidal peptide-1 (OAIP-1) was found to be highly toxic to insects that consumed it with potency similar to that of the synthetic insecticide imidacloprid.
The research was supported by funding from the Energy Biosciences Institute and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch Project No.
and Biosciences Institute and the Department of agriculture and Rural development Northern ireland sequenced the genomes of 147 M. bovis samples collected over a decade of outbreaks in Northern ireland.
In an article published recently in the journal Bioscience research ecologists John Campbell and Lindsey Rustad of the U s. Forest Service's Northern Research Station and colleagues make a case for incorporating automated quality control and quality assurance procedures in sensor networks.
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and genetically modifying crops according to a Forum article published in the August issue of Bioscience.
The study led by Dr Reinhard Stã ger Associate professor in Epigenetics in the University's School of Biosciences was conducted under field realistic conditions
Dr Jon Blount from Biosciences at the University of Exeter who led the research said:
#Black locust tree shows promise for biomass potentialresearchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois evaluating the biomass potential of woody crops are taking a closer look at the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) which showed a higher yield
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Funding was provided by the Energy Biosciences Institute. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Illinois College of Agricultural Consumer and Environmental sciences (ACES.
This bioprocess called simultaneous enzymatic biotransformation and microbial fermentation is easy to scale up for commercial production.
Geosciences and Biosciences Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of energy. Chen was supported partially by the China Scholarship Council.
Now researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) through support from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) have shed literally new light on cellulase catalysis. Using an ultrahigh-precision visible light microscopy
Jonathan R. Mielenz group leader of the bioscience and technology biosciences division at the Oak ridge National Laboratory who is familiar with Zhang's work
Geosciences and Biosciences Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of energy. The lead author of the article Julia S. Martin Del Campo who works in Zhang's lab received her Ph d. grant from the Mexican Council of Science and Technology.
The study also included researchers from Arcadia Biosciences and Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University India.
and Claire Mccallum of Arcadia Biosciences which provided the lettuce lines with variants of the target gene to help confirm the study's findings.
Through the technology transfer company Plant Bioscience Ltd the strain has been patented and is now in large-scale farm trials to assess its efficacy.
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and how they are created researchers at the University of Illinois's Energy Biosciences Institute have developed some suggestions on how to improve the regulation of all invasive plant species including new biofuels plants.
Quinn's job at the University of Illinois's Energy Biosciences Institute has been to investigate the potential for invasiveness in new nonnative crops that are being developed for biofuels.
Quinn who is a postdoctoral research associate at the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois conducted the research along with James Mccubbins and A. Bryan Endres both U of
Suggestions for Improved Regulation was published in the February issue of Biosciences. The research was funded by the Energy Biosciences Institute.
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and by the Energy Biosciences Institute of the University of California Berkeley who supported senior author Therese Mitros.
Leading the study was Dr Martin Broadley of the University's School of Biosciences he said:
A Virginia Tech researcher along with another scientist and two attorneys has authored an innovative article in the journal Bioscience that proposes a way to improve
and we have shared a responsibility for proper stewardship of these landscapes said Lauren Quinn a research associate at the Energy Biosciences Institute at the University of Illinois-Urbana
Other coauthors are James S n. Mccubbins and A. Bryan Endres both attorneys with the Energy Biosciences Institute.
To study the problem Kiang's lab worked closely with Moake's team at Rice's Bioscience Research Collaborative
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and more effective toxicity tests for airborne chemicals scientists from Rice university and the Rice spinoff company Nano3d Biosciences have used magnetic levitation to grow some of the most realistic lung tissue ever produced in a laboratory.
Killian and fellow scientists from Rice and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center co-founded Nano3d Biosciences in 2009 after creating a technology that uses magnetism to levitate
Nano3d Biosciences won a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2011 to create a four-layered lung tissue from endothelial cells smooth muscle cells
and layers of in vitro bronchiole tissue created at Rice university and Nano3d Biosciences. The cell layers include epithelial cells (Epic) smooth muscle cells (SMC) pulmonary fibroblasts (PF) and pulmonary endothelial cells (PEC.
Study co-authors include Robert Raphael professor of bioengineering at Rice and cofounder of Nano3d Biosciences;
and former BCM scientist Jacob Gage now with Nano3d Biosciences. The research was funded by NSF and the Texas Emerging Technologies Fund.
In the study funded by the Energy Biosciences Institute miscanthus switchgrass and mixed prairie species were compared against a typical corn-corn-soybean rotation.
Rea Antoniou Kourounioti a Phd student in the School of Biosciences said: We provide a first analysis of how petal surface patterns might be produced.
since support from the National Science Foundation the Department of energy Rice's Faculty Initiative Fund Rice's Shell Center for Sustainability and Rice's Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering.
Cann also is a microbiology professor and a principal investigator at the Energy Biosciences Institute. Dodd is now at Stanford university.
Shelagh Kell Research Fellow School of Biosciences said China has remarkable wild plant diversity. With more plant species than Europe and CWR of globally important food crops its position as a provider of plant genetic resources for crop improvement is crucial to us all globally.
Dr Nigel Maxted lead investigator from the University of Birmingham's School of Biosciences said:'
#Pesticide risk assessments seen as biased, experts advisein the October issue of Bioscience a group of ecotoxicologists argue that the US Environmental protection agency's (USEPA) current practices for evaluating pesticide safety are inadequate
Three years of effort led the chemists working at Rice's Bioscience Research Collaborative to find a structure that not only matches that of natural viridicatumtoxin B
Dr Dan Bebber of Biosciences at the University of Exeter said: If crop pests continue to spread at current rates many of the world's biggest crop producing nations will be inundated by the middle of the Century posing a grave threat to global food security.
Professor Sarah Gurr of Biosciences the University of Exeter added: New virulent variants of pests are constantly evolving.
I. He also is an affiliate of the Energy Biosciences Institute which funded the research through the Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. Estimates derived from satellite images of vegetation
Lauren Quinn an invasive plant ecologist at U of I's Energy Biosciences Institute recognized that most of the news about invasive biofuel crops was negative
Co-authors include Elise Scott and James Mccubbins from the Energy Biosciences Institute A. Bryan Endres and Thomas Voigt from the University of Illinois and Jacob Barney from Virginia Tech.
and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Physics and Astronomy and co-director of the CTBP based at Rice's Bioscience Research Collaborative.
The mapping of odor codes opens up new possibilities for biotechnology applications. For example knowing more about the odor codes of crop plants and fruits at molecular level can be useful to breeders.
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when to gorice University bioengineers have created a hydrogel that instantly turns from liquid to semisolid at close to body temperature
The hydrogel created in the lab of Rice bioengineer Antonios Mikos is a liquid at room temperature
Watson and his colleagues at Rice's Bioscience Research Collaborative solved the problem by adding chemical cross-linkers to the gel's molecules.
so subsidies can provide a needed boost to make the investment worthwhile said study lead author Avery Cohn an independent fellow at the UC Berkeley Energy Biosciences Institute and a graduate of the Department of Environmental science Policy and Management.
The method is equivalent to a label that cannot be removed says Robert Grass lecturer in the Department of chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich.
and lead author of the study published April 16 in the journal Bioscience. Traditional shade grown coffee is cultivated under a diverse canopy of native forest trees in dense to moderate shade.
When you see how elegantly nature solves problems you realise how deadlocked the world of technology often is says Wendelin Jan Stark a professor from the ETH Department of chemistry and Applied Biosciences.
and soil fertility while helping to stabilize the climate according to an article in the May issue of Bioscience.
The National Science Foundation the Welch Foundation and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation through a Rice Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering Medical Innovations Award Grant supported the research.
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Professor Peter Jeffries of the University's School of Biosciences said:''Brown rot disease is a major problem for the UK's cherry
The study was carried out by Professor Jeffries and research student Nattawut Rungjindamai of the School of Biosciences along with Professor Xiang-Ming Xu of East Malling Research.
Researchers at The Roslin Institute worked on the study with colleagues from the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and Queen's university Belfast.
Results from the diagnostic developed by the lab of Rice bioengineer Rebecca Richards-Kortum are read from a paper strip that resembles a pregnancy test.
Lead author Zachary Crannell a graduate student based at Rice's Bioscience Research Collaborative said the disease usually transmitted through drinking water accounts for 20 percent of childhood diarrheal deaths in developing countries.
and bats--are much more likely to succeed in the long run according to the U-M researchers who provide an overview of the recent Latin american coffee rust epidemic in a paper published online Jan 22 in the journal Bioscience.
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and commercial rights are available from Plant Bioscience Limited Durham's commercialisation partner for this technology.
The research by the Schools of Psychology and Biosciences at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) is comparing two different health drinks.
which could make production of this bioproduct less expensive and more sustainable, Â Joerg Bohlmann said in the press release.
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Can designers fix America's suburban foreclosure problems? A rendering of an abandoned factory in Cicero, Illinous, re-made as a garden, by Studio Gang NEW YORK--On a brisk Saturday afternoon in late February, a small,
such as pulp made from sugar cane and those based on some rice bioproducts. Overall, the company's goal is to reduce packaging volume by 10 percent by 2012.
Ethanol subsidies skate past budget battle Dupont's big bioscience bets Next-gen biofuel in 2012:
Dupont's big bioscience bets: butanol, cellulosic ethanol, omega-3 acidsnew YORK--Dupont wants to help raiseã Â sustainably-farmed salmon by offering them a diet loaded with omega-3 fatty acids that it manufactures from soybeans.
Binetti, theã Â president of Dupont's Nutrition & Health and Applied Biosciences divisions, says he sees large potential market opportunities for his group that will lead to 7 percent annual growth
The Applied Biosciences division, which counts $1 billion in revenue, is comprised of two primary businesses:
Little wonder that the biotech companies are worried. A June ABC News poll found that 52 percent of the respondents felt GMO food was unsafe to eat
belies the claims made by the biotechnology industry that its crops would be better for the environment. oethe biotech industry is taking us into a more pesticide-dependent agriculture when they ve always promised,
Monsanto and other agricultural biotech companies are also developing genetically engineered crops resistant to other herbicides.
then the stage will be set for a bioscience version of Apple or Google to be born in a dormitory room or garage.
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