Faulty Genes Explain Why Cloning Is So Difficult Cloning may not always completely reprogram an egg cell the way sexual reproduction does, which would explain why the process fails so often, researchers reported on Monday.
Two New Bills Present Challenges to DNA Patentability This time the challenge to the patents, commonly called gene patents, comes from the US House of Representatives in the form of two bills introduced on March 15 by Rep. Lynn Rivers (D-Mich.). If enacted, each of these would threaten future biotech innovation in the US.
Biotech industry’s still waiting to break out It turns out that even with the genome in hand, discovering drugs and testing them to prove they work is an expensive, grueling process.
Biotech industry’s still waiting to break out It turns out that even with the genome in hand, discovering drugs and testing them to prove they work is an expensive, grueling process.
Rating the Nation’s Best and Worst Jobs According to this year’s edition of “Jobs Rated Almanac” the nation’s single best job in terms of low stress, high compensation, lots of autonomy, tremendous hiring demand and several other key criteria, is biologist.
Rating the Nation’s Best and Worst Jobs According to this year’s edition of “Jobs Rated Almanac” the nation’s single best job in terms of low stress, high compensation, lots of autonomy, tremendous hiring demand and several other key criteria, is biologist.
Battling Hunger With Biotechnology Biotech Can Be Useful Development Tool, Scientists Say
Motorola shedding biochip biz Motorola Inc. has put its life sciences business up for sale in a move that is dashing CEO Christopher Galvin’s dream of making biochips the company’s next big success.
Drug makers need a cure for the manufacturing crunch Over the next several years, growth in demand for biotech production is estimated to outstrip the growth in supply.
Celera Shifts Marketing of Database The main job of marketing and distributing the database will be shifted to Celera’s sister company, the Applied Biosystems Group, which makes equipment used to study genes and proteins
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