20.2.2006 | Press monitoring
Realizing the potential of agricultural genomics into practical applications requires quantitative predictions for complex traits and different genotypes and environmental conditions.
20.2.2006 | Press monitoring
Scientists from National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg (USA) created long polymer nanotubes by directly pulling on the membrane of polymersomes using either optical tweezers or a micropipette. The polymersomes are composed of amphiphilic diblock copolymers, and the nanotubes formed have an aqueous core connected to the...
20.2.2006 | Press monitoring
Long before the first introduction of GM crops, international organizations like the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), had been promoting international consensus on how to assess the safety of such crops. An internationally harmonized...
20.2.2006 | Press monitoring
A new vaccine against one of the most common ailments of childhood won federal approval on 3rd February 2006, six years after a similar vaccine was pulled from the market for injuring scores of babies.
20.2.2006 | Press monitoring
After lung injury and damage to the alveolar epithelium, the underlying basement membranes become exposed. Proliferation of type II pneumocytes and their differentiation to the type I phenotype have been considered to be the mechanism by which repopulation of the alveolar epithelium occurs. A growing body of evidence has shown that tissues can...
20.2.2006 | Press monitoring
Production of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) for therapeutic purposes relies on its expression in selected clones of transfected mammalian cells. Alternatively, this glycoprotein can be produced by targeted secretion into the body fluid of transgenic mammals.
16.2.2006 | Press monitoring
Tobacco plants can now produce vaccine against Lyme disease - a tick-borne disease from the bacterium Borreliosis. Dr. Heribert Warzecha, from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, describes how his group was able to accomplish this feat in the scientific journal Nature Biotechnology.
14.2.2006 | Press monitoring
Renessen LLC announced plans for a new pilot plant to test a unique technology system in which new biotech corn hybrids with increased energy and nutrient levels will be combined with a novel dry corn separation technique designed for ethanol facilities.
13.2.2006 | Press monitoring
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland, Europe's biggest per capita consumer of potatoes, is weighing a proposal by German chemicals group BASF to grow varieties that have been genetically modified to resist disease.
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