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• Biomedical research is ripe for a stimulus

  As Congress debates a major economic stimulus package, investment in energy research is high on the agenda. While this promises benefit to our economy and security, it highlights the value of reinvigorating our investment in another area of science -- Read More...
  Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 12:25 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotechnology, NIH, National Institutes of Health, Obama, Congressional budget

• The Mentorship Market

  Andrew Cittadine, CEO of a medical device company, needed help. It was early 2007, and his four-man, Illinois-based company American BioOptics was surviving on little more than a prototype for a new medical device, early drafts of a business plan and Read More...
  Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 6:32 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotechnology, life sciences, mentorship

• 'Injectable bone' helps fractures

  A material that can be squirted into broken bones, where it hardens within minutes, has been developed by UK scientists. The toothpaste-like substance forms a biodegradeable scaffold over which the body's own bone grows. Its makers, from Nottingham Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:42 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotechnology, Bone enhancement

• Kansas wins controversial biolab?

  Manhattan, Kansas has been chosen as the site for the much-contested $450 million government biolab, which will house research on some of the most highly infectious human and animal pathogens, according to a draft document from the Department of Homeland Read More...
  Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:49 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotechnology, Department of Homeland Security

• 'Unprecedented' biotech bankruptcies erupt amid finance crisis

  The global economic crisis has cut funding for biotechnology companies to the lowest level in a decade, triggering bankruptcies and threatening development of drugs based on biomedical breakthroughs. In the past month, at least five biotechnology businesses Read More...
  Posted Sunday, November 30, 2008 9:23 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotech, Biotechnology, finances, economic crisis, bankruptcy

• Life sciences companies are well suited to giving

  The core mission of biotechnology companies is to better the health of society, which puts them alongside the nonprofit world when it comes to social and medical causes. Because their work force includes doctors, veterinarians, researchers, and other Read More...
  Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 12:38 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotechnology, Philanthropy, Boston

• Brooklyn Lab Is Part of City’s Goal to Be a Biotech Center

  On the top floor of a hulking 90-year-old building on Brooklyn’s western waterfront, plasterers and electricians are preparing what city officials hope will be an economic antidote to the implosion of the financial services industry. In a cavernous Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:08 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotechnology, New York City, AIDS research

• What Is A Career In Biotechnology Like?

  Biotechnologists frequently use microorganisms or biological substances to perform specific processes or for manufacturing. Examples include the production of drugs, hormones, foods and converting waste products. There are many sub-branches involved in Read More...
  Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:44 AM by Editor / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, careers

• In largest gift, Harvard gets $125m for biological institute

  Harvard University said yesterday it received the largest individual gift in its history, a $125 million donation from entrepreneur Hansjörg Wyss. The money will underwrite a new biological engineering institute where scientists will research everything Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:09 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Synthetic biology, Biotechnology, harvard university

• Poor agricultural yeids and rising food insecurity in sub – Saharan Africa has brought into sharp focus the role of modern agricultural technology in human development.

  Heightening food insecurity in Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe and several other African countries of the region has stimulated political and public attention on genetic engineering in general and on the potential benefits Read More...
  Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 1:08 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Biotechnology, genetically modified crops, famine