Pharmaceuticals: Going large
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IN PHARMACEUTICALS, the 20th century was the era of the small molecule. The industry thrived by identifying a steady stream of relatively simple compounds that treated lots of people, patenting them and making a fortune. In the ea...
Source: Biotechnology - December 30, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Pharmaceuticals: Going large
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A wave of new medicines known as biologics will be good for drugmakers, but may not be so good for health budgets
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Source: Biotechnology - December 30, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Charlemagne: The battle of the scientists
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AT THE end of a hard year Europe’s leaders are grappling with familiar problems—how to revive gasping economies, what to do about the Russian menace. But a quieter source of discontent is also bubbling up: Europe’s scientists. The continent of Galileo and Darwin is not about to cast...
Source: Biotechnology - December 17, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Charlemagne: The battle of the scientists
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Are Europeans becoming more hostile to science and technology?
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AT THE end of a hard year Europe’s leaders are grappling with familiar problems—how...
Source: Biotechnology - December 17, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified food: Frankenfine
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ON a damp Sunday afternoon shoppers at Tesco, a supermarket, in south London seem uninterested in discussing genetically modified (GM) food. Several shrug at the idea, or profess ignorance. One insists she only buys organic stuff, but only if it is not to...
Source: Biotechnology - November 27, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified food: Frankenfine
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Should digital monopolies be broken up?
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Attitudes to genetically modified food seem to be changing
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ON a damp Sunday afternoon shoppers at Tesco, a supermark...
Source: Biotechnology - November 27, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified crops: Field research
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ON NOVEMBER 4th voters in Colorado rejected a ballot initiative that would have required special labels for foods made with genetically modified (GM) ingredients. As The Economist went to press, voters in Oregon seemed likely to say no to a similar proposal there, though the count...
Source: Biotechnology - November 6, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified crops: Field research
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The biggest study so far finds that GM crops have large, widespread benefits
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ON NOVEMBER 4th voters in Colorado rejected a ballot initiative t...
Source: Biotechnology - November 6, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Biotechnology: A new opium pipe
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That sinking feeling (again)
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Narcotic drugs could soon be manufactured by yeast
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SYNTHETIC biology—the technique of moving genes from creature to creature not one at a t...
Source: Biotechnology - August 28, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified food: Vermont v science
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The little state that could kneecap the biotech industry
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Source: Biotechnology - May 8, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
The Economist explains: Why gene therapy just got easier
SOME diseases, such as haemophilia and cystic fibrosis, are caused by broken genes. Doctors have long dreamed of treating them by adding working copies of these genes to cells in the relevant tissue (bone marrow and the epithelium of the lung respectively, in these two cases). This has proved hard. There have been a handful of qualified successes over the years, most recently involving attempts to restore vision to people with gene-related blindness. But this sort of gene therapy is likely to remain experimental and bespoke for a long time, as it is hard to get enough genes into enough cells in solid tissue to have a meani...
Source: Biotechnology - April 8, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
GM crops, Indian farmers and suicide: GM genocide?
FACTS can be stubborn - and irritating. It is satisfying—perhaps even gratifying—to accept the idea that genetically modified crops are causing thousands of Indian farmers to commit suicide (as this article claims). The notion seems plausible: farmers take out higher debts on the promise that GM seeds will be a bonanza and then lose everything when the harvest fails. There is genuine distress: farmers are indeed killing themselves. Their cause has been adopted by high-profile campaigners such as Britain’s Prince Charles and India’s Vandana Shiva, who blames the spate of deaths on Monsanto, an American biot...
Source: Biotechnology - March 13, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Bioprinters: Printing a bit of me
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Bioprinting: Building living tissue with a 3D printer is becoming a new business, but making whole organs for transplant remains elusive
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IN A state-of-...
Source: Biotechnology - March 6, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Gene therapy: Ingenious
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Fixing a body’s broken genes is becoming possible
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Source: Biotechnology - February 6, 2014 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified crops: Food fight
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A fierce public debate over GM food exposes concerns about America
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Source: Biotechnology - December 12, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
