News tagged with biotechnics
Global health vs. global wealth: Looming choice for health firms in developing countries
The lure of greater profits elsewhere in the world may divert bio-pharmaceutical firms in developing countries from the creation and distribution of affordable drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for illnesses of local concern, ...
Sep 09, 2010 |
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Cholera and vaccine experts urge United States to stockpile vaccine
As the cholera epidemic in Haiti continues to rage, public health workers are focusing their efforts on treating the tens of thousands who have already been hospitalized with cholera-like symptoms and providing clean water ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Fungal map of mutations key to increasing enzyme production for bioenergy use
(PhysOrg.com) -- In half a century, one fungus has gone from being the bane of the Army quartermasters' existence in the Pacific to industry staple and someday, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's mission ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Nature's own chemical plant
Petroleum is the feedstock for many products in the chemical industry. However, this fossil fuel is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. Renewable raw materials are an alternative. But can the likes of bioethanol be ...
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Maternal Obesity Can Program Fetal Brain to Induce Adult-onset Obesity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that fetuses of obese mother rats were programmed in utero to develop obesity in adulthood.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 04, 2008 |
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Biologists sequenced red flour beetle genome
Most of us hate to find the red flour beetle living happily in the flour sack in our pantries. But for several scientists at Kansas State University, and many others throughout the world, this pest of stored grain and grain ...
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Mar 23, 2008 |
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Biotechnology needs 21st century patent system: Expert
Biotechnology discoveries – like the method for creating synthetic life forms – are at risk of being unduly hindered or taken hostage by private corporations unless patent systems are brought into the 21st century, an expert ...
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Mar 17, 2008 |
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Surgical glue
In a few years’ time, instead of fiddling with needle and thread, sur-geons may simply use glue to connect implants to living tissue. They took their idea from mussels, which can stick to any surface, be it porous rock or ...
Dec 03, 2007 |
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The pocket laboratory
Made in Germany, the world’s first fully electric biochip can quickly, reliably and automatically detect pathogens or residual traces of antibiotics. For this development, the president of the Federal Republic awarded the ...
Dec 20, 2004 |
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