Biotech Blog Archives: May 2007
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25 May 2007
Carnival of Biotechnology
Welcome to the May 25th 2007 edition of Carnival of Biotechnology.
Finance and business development
The big news on the web is Google’s investment in 23andMe, described here by the California Biotech Law Blog.
International biotech
Business Week has an article on The Rush To Test Drugs In China. This is a story with a number of potential [...]
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22 May 2007
The global spread of biotechnology
I’ve been tracking the global spread of biotechnology for quite a while now. I’m fascinated with why biotechnology has taken root so strongly in the United States while many other countries are struggling to develop critical mass. This is the topic of a paper I’ve recently co-submitted in response to a request from the American [...]
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14 May 2007
A new journal in town…
If, like me, you miss the late Acumen Journal, you’ll be glad to hear that a very similar journal has launched. The Journal of Life Sciences brands itself “Where science and society meet.”
A copy appeared in the mail a few weeks ago, and I’ve been meaning to post a blog about it. Now that [...]
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11 May 2007
Career Development at UNC Chapel Hill
I’ll be giving a talk on career development in biotechnology at UNC-Chapel Hill on Wednesday May 16th at 4pm in the Bioinformatics Building (ground floor auditorium), to be followed by a social/networking session at Top of the Hill (local brewery) at 5:30.
My talk will open with my meandering career path, (hopefully) provide some guidance [...]
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9 May 2007
Greenpeace a champion for genetic modification?
What does Greenpeace oppose more: Patents, or genetic modification?
This question has been answered in a recent patent case where the European Patent Office (EPO) rejected a Monsanto patent for a technique for genetic modification of plants.
The patent, which was due to expire in 2008, describes a method to use a ‘particle gun’ to fire DNA [...]
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8 May 2007
Top five biotechnology blogs
My article on the top five biotechnology blogs is up at Biotech360. Hope I don’t get too much hatemail over the blogs I didn’t mention; with a limit of five blogs I tried to identify one representative blog for policy, research, IP, marketing, and general innovation.
