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Governors ask FDA to release guidelines on generic insulin and growth hormone
4.8.2006 | Press monitoring
WASHINGTON (AP) - The governors of four states petitioned federal health officials Thursday to issue long-delayed guidelines on the production of generic versions of insulin and human growth hormone.
Biotechnology in Poland – New Business Atlas Published
4.8.2006 | Press monitoring
Co-operations on both sides of the river Oder are facilitated
Biotechnology only solution to feed the world
4.8.2006 | Press monitoring
Biotechnology holds tremendous promise for the developing world. The use of high-yielding, disease and pest resistant crops will have a direct bearing on improved food security, poverty alleviation and environmental conservation in Africa.
Fuel Cells, A Neglected Clean Source Of Energy
4.8.2006 | Press monitoring
While the world is crying out for reliable sources of energy that do not threaten the environment, one option, the hydrogen fuel cell has been relatively neglected through insufficient support from industry and government. This emerges from a new study funded by the UK-based Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Corn waste potentially more than ethanol
4.8.2006 | Press monitoring
After the corn harvest, whether for cattle feed or corn on the cob, farmers usually leave the stalks and stems in the field, but now, a team of Penn State researchers think corn stover can be used not only to manufacture ethanol, but to generate electricity directly.
US drive to make fuel from plants gets a boost
4.8.2006 | Press monitoring
A new federal report concludes that the ability to make fuel efficiently from virtually any kind of plant is within reach, offering the promise of a technology that could dramatically benefit the environment, slash dependence on foreign oil, and one day even reorder the global balance of power.
Scientists Say They’ve Found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA
2.8.2006 | Press monitoring
Researchers believe they have found a second code in DNA in addition to the genetic code.
Nano cancer scanner
2.8.2006 | Press monitoring
X-ray imaging is a very mature, although not infallible, field of medicine, but it does not lend itself to the detection of small tumours or their metastases. Now, Sangeeta Bhatia in Boston, Massachusetts and colleagues at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology hope to remedy that by using iron oxide nanoparticles to allow MRI...
Czech birthplace of genetics seeks biotech future
2.8.2006 | Press monitoring
BRNO, Czech Republic (Reuters) - The walled garden of Brno's 14th-century Abbey of St. Thomas seems an unlikely birthplace for the gene revolution, which gave the world biotech drugs and genetically modified crops.
Live Wires
2.8.2006 | Press monitoring
A microbiologist discovers our planet is hard-wired with electricity-producing bacteria
