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  • Big Pharma looks at biotech biz

    The biotech sector’s knack at innovation seems to come from the small size of most its companies, which reduces bureaucracy and complications, and a chronic underfunding that drives companies to be more nimble and creative in the research and early development phases. At the other end of the pipeline — [...]

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  • Can Biotechnology save Africa?

    The Des Moines Register this week publishes a wide-ranging series on the use of agricultural biotechnology in Africa.

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  • Biotech jobs growing in Florida, long-term payoff unclear

    Florida trails biotech leaders California and Massachusetts in many measures, but it has shown promise in some areas. How Florida ranked in a variety of indicators:

    No. 6 in bioscience jobs in 2008 with 27,960. No. 6 in bioscience college degrees in 2008 with 6,886. No. 8 in bioscience patents 2004-09 with 3,141. No. [...]
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  • Florida Innovation Partners

    Business leaders with the Tradition Center for Innovation announced Wednesday the formation of Florida Innovation Partners, an organization that will direct the center’s growth and promote the commercialization of new discoveries made within the park.

    Andy Favata, Florida Innovation Partners’ director and vice president of the Mann Research Center, said the [...]

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  • Fewer Floridians at BIO

    Palm Beach County sent a smaller delegation to the Biotechnology Industry Or-ganization’s BIO convention in Chicago this year than in past years, and attendance overall has dwindled. BIO says this year’s attendance is “nearly 15,000,” compared to 14,352 at last year’s show in Atlanta and 19,479 at the 2006 conference [...]

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  • Florida biotech employment up

    Florida’s biotech industry is thriving, although the wisdom of the state’s $1.5 billion bet on research labs remains unclear, a prominent industry expert said today.

    Battelle, an independent research firm based in Cleveland, and the Biotechnology Industry Organization kicked off the annual BIO conference in Chicago with a report showing that [...]

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  • Patent on Human Embryonic Stem Cells Rejected After Consumer Groups’ Appeal

    In what two consumer groups today praised as a victory for open scientific inquiry, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a controversial patent on human embryonic stem cells held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).

    “This is a major victory for unfettered scientific research that could lead to [...]

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  • As Collier County weighs Jackson lab benefits, analysts question if job payoff is realistic

    All that Collier County residents have to go on now are pledges and projections about what the future would hold if Maine-based Jackson Laboratory builds a medical research institute near the town of Ave Maria with $50 million initially from local tax dollars.

    “This community is not currently a destination for [...]

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  • New Stanford tool enables wider analyses of genome ‘deep sequencing’

    Until now, researchers have relied on outdated methods of analysis to identify those DNA sequences involved in controlling when and how individual genes are expressed. Most often, those methods – capable of probing only specific, limited regions of the genome arising from a type of experiment called DNA microarrays – [...]

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  • Scripps Research Institute Scientists Awarded $1.3 Million NIH Grant to Develop New Tests for Potential Obesity and Diabetes Treatment

    The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded a $1.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a series of tests at its Florida campus to help explore the potential of a protein that has emerged as a highly attractive target for the treatment of obesity and [...]

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