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Synthetic biology could replace oil for chemical industry

The U.S. Department of Energy has set a goal of obtaining a quarter of industrial chemicals from biological processes by 2025. Vast vats of blue-green algae could one day replace oil wells in producing 99 percent of the raw materials used to make paint, plastics, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals and other chemical products, according [...]

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UMLSTP signs lease with Advanced Pharma

Advanced Pharma CR, one of South Florida’s largest CROs,has signed a lease to relocate to the University of Miami Life Science and Technology Park’s first building, a 252,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility.

Advanced Pharma’s move into UMLSTP means a major expansion for the company, quadrupling its facility’s current size to 20,000 [...]

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Team finds stable RNA nano-scaffold within virus core

Overcoming another barrier to the development of therapeutic RNA nanotechnology, researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered an RNA nano-scaffold that remains unusually stable in the body.

Peixuan Guo, PhD, Dane and Mary Louise Miller Endowed Chair and professor of biomedical engineering, and his colleagues in UC’s College of Engineering and [...]

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