Genentech donates $2.5 million to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
...ts 30th anniversary, Genentech, the founder of the biotechnology industry, has announced a landmark gift of $2.5 mi...apitalist Bob Swanson founded Genentech, the first biotechnology company, and in the process launched a whole new industry. Today biotechnology drives medical innov...Amid growing public concerns, bioscience firms begin formalizing ethical decision-making practices
Pharmaceutical, biotechnology and bio-agricultural companies, grappling with an array of complex ethical issues, are gradually formalizing systematic approaches to ethical decision-making, according to a two-year study by leading international ethics and bioscience researchers. B...FDA approves extended dosing of Aranesp
..., 2006) Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved every-three-week dosing of Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa) for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced anemia (low red blood cell count) in patients with non-myeloid malignanc...Biggest physics meeting of the year
...nd between nerve cells. Researchers are developing biotechnology applications for natural and artificial versions of such nanopores. For example, nanopores are coming closer to enabling faster and better DNA sequencing than present biochemistry-based methods. In the general concept, DNA would traverse through th...Women's bioethics project receives grant from Ford Foundation
...heard, as women are uniquely affected by issues in biotechnology and healthcare. Women carry babies, live longer than men, and are the predominant caretakers for children, the sick, disabled and elderly people. By providing women legislative leaders the support they need to champion these issues, we can help ensur...Computer simulation hints at new HIV drug target
...will motivate the researchers in pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies to pursue the design of a new kind of inhibitor," Perryman said. "We are trying to lead other scientists toward a completely novel approach to fighting HIV infections." In contrast to the colorful but static images on the covers of scientif...New target for obesity and related metabolic disorders
...y Overton, Christine Reynet, and colleagues of the biotechnology company (OSI)Prosidion, the team found that so-called oleoylethanolamide, a naturally occurring lipid-signaling agent earlier shown to reduce food intake and weight gain in rats, can exert its effects through the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) GPR...Experts: Expanding biotechnology research in developing countries key to countering bioterrorism
...re on a potential collision course with legitimate biotechnology pursuits that hold the promise of improving life f...for a global network of scientists to both promote biotechnology research to fight disease, hunger and poverty, especially in the developing world, and to keep vigil...Broad Foundation donates $25 million to create new stem cell institute at USC
...ill have a state-of-the-art imaging facility and a biotechnology transfer center that is expected to become an essential resource for researchers and for the entire Keck School of Medicine community. "This institute is important to the Keck School, particularly at this time, as the National Institutes of Health la...Investigational therapy denosumab increased bone mineral density with twice-yearly dosing
Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), the world's largest biotechnology company, announced today the publication of Phase 2 data demonstrating twice-yearly injections of denosumab (previously referred to as AMG 162), a RANK Ligand inhibitor, significantly increased bone mineral density (BMD) in the total hip, lumbar spin...A comparative institutional analysis of intellectual property
...g this process? "Patents are essential to bringing biotechnology innovations from everyone -- not just well-funded corporations -- to the people," says F. Scott Kieff, J.D., associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. "Without patents, the biotech marketplace in basic science takes on the nat...American opinions are split on genetically engineered food
... and non-Caucasians perceived higher risk in using biotechnology in food production than men and Caucasians. And po...." Specifically, the mean response for support for biotechnology was 5.6 (on a 1-10 scale) in the first year of the surveys, indicating that people were evenly divid...Kereos presents at AAAS, discusses nanotech-based disease diagnosis and treatment
...notechnology, to early cancer diagnosis. St. Louis biotechnology company Kereos is developing one of the most advan...day, February 17, 2006. Beardsley has led several biotechnology companies and has held life science venture capital and investment banking positions. Both Beardsle...Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health
...eld of environmental biotechnology. Environmental biotechnology has been around for almost a century, first adapte...to achieving success through microbial ecology and biotechnology is to take advantage of microbial diversity as much as possible, particularly having different micro...NJIT professor discovers better way to desalinate water
...een leading the effort in membrane separations and biotechnology at NJIT since1992. He is the director for the Center for Membrane Technologies at NJIT and is the Foundation Professor of Membrane Separations. Sirkar has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed articles that have appeared in AIChE Journal, Biotechnolo...Accumulator ring commissioning latest step for spallation neutron source
...facturing, transportation, information technology, biotechnology and health. SNS will increase the number of neutrons available to researchers nearly tenfold, providing clearer images of molecular structures. Together, ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor and SNS will represent the world's foremost facilities for neut...Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases
...utes of Health (FNIH) and major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, especially Pfizer Global Research & Development of New London, Conn.; and Affymetrix Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., to accelerate genome association studies to find the genetic roots of widespread sicknesses. The genetic analysis component o...University presidents: NY must act on stem cell research
...opment of innovative products and concepts for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The academic medical community contributes an estimated $30 billion per year to the state's economy and generates more than 459,000 jobs. The biotech and pharmaceutical sectors are responsible for $18.1 billion in eco...Stable polymer nanotubes may have a biotech future
... Academy of Sciences,* the NIST nanotubes may have biotechnology applications as channels for tiny volumes of chemicals in nanofluidic reactor devices, for example, or as the "world's smallest hypodermic needles" for injecting molecules one at a time. Carbon nanotubes are of keen interest in nanotechnology researc...Dow AgroSciences achieves world's first registration for plant-made vaccines
...Health, "This approval is a perfect example of how biotechnology is advancing science by creating a new category of vaccines that is both safe and effective." By achieving this regulatory milestone, Dow AgroSciences has demonstrated that this new technology fits within the existing USDA Center for Veterinary Biol...