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U.S. Senate Passes Stem Cell Bill
14.8.2006 | Press monitoring
The U.S. Senate this afternoon voted to override Administration policy on human embryonic stem (ES) cells by allowing federally funded scientists to work with cell lines derived after the presidential cut-off date of 9 August 2001. But President George W. Bush is expected to kill the measure this week, wielding the first veto of his...
DNA molecules move in mysterious ways
14.8.2006 | Press monitoring
As a result of developing a novel copolymer that is highly effective at separating different size DNA strands, US researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism for DNA migration in polymer gels.
A simple, green method for including organic compounds in nanoparticles
14.8.2006 | Press monitoring
A Spanish spin-off company has developed a new method for the preparation of solid lipid nanoparticles of organic compounds that can be used by pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.
Sugar-based fashions star at Toronto biotech show
14.8.2006 | Press monitoring
TORONTO (Reuters) - Models stalked the runway in designer clothes made from fermented corn sugar on Thursday in a fashion show held at an international biotech conference in Toronto in an attempt to "make green sexy."
Biotech investors search for signs of a bull
14.8.2006 | Press monitoring
BOSTON (Reuters) - Investors searching for signs of an end to the nearly five-month-long sell-off in biotechnology stocks were still sifting the tea leaves on Wednesday after two of the biggest companies in the industry reported earnings.
French Researchers Developing Key NanoArrayer Applications
13.8.2006 | Press monitoring
BioForce Nanosciences, manufacturer of the NanoArrayer System for enabling new nanotechnology applications, has announced the placement of a NanoArrayer in Paris at the Universite Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC) for technology evaluation by CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), the French National Center for Scientific Research....
Plan to grow Aids cream in tobacco plants
12.8.2006 | Press monitoring
Tobacco, long associated with health complications, could soon help save lives instead of ending them, according to new research from the UK.
Legal boost for French GM sector
12.8.2006 | Press monitoring
Two recent judicial decisions could be the turning point for biotech cultivation in France, according to a new USDA GAIN report.
Next up for biotech: Virus-resistant trees
12.8.2006 | Press monitoring
WASHINGTON, D.C. - When a virus was discovered in Jim Lerew's Pennsylvania peach orchard in 1999, all 160 acres of trees had to be destroyed. He hasn't planted any replacement trees since then for fear the virus would attack them, too.
A New Green Revolution for a Greener 21st Century
12.8.2006 | Press monitoring
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