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Contact us	23 Feb - 01 March 2010

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24 - 26 February - European Convention on Global Sustainable Bioenergy, Delft, The Netherlands 3 - 5 March - EMBL Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data (VizBi), Heidelberg, Germany 4 - 6 March - European Course for Life Sciences Executives, Basel, Switzerland

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HEADLINES
OECD - Agricultural and health biotechnologies: Building Blocks of the Bioeconomy
Innovation chief: Venture capital can turn science into commerce Europe produces more research papers than the US or Japan but needs an influx of venture capital to turn inventions into commercial success, according to Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, EU commissioner for research, innovation and science.
Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

GREEN BIOTECH
Iowa State Study Looks at Impact of Biotech Crops on Market Prices The Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University released a new publication, The Production and Price Impact of Biotech Crops.
Italian Farmers Lose USD 475 M Annually By Not Being Allowed to Grow GM Corn

RED BIOTECH
Munich gets €94M to build personalised medicine cluster The region around Munich already has a lot of what it takes to compete as a successful biotechnology centre. Besides some 120 biotech companies located in and around the metropolis, with companies such as MorphoSys, MediGene and Micromet numbering among the success stories, the area has also seen a growing pharmaceutical presence over the past decade.

WHITE BIOTECH
Industry: R&D 'demo projects' face funding drought The fruits of EU research are not being converted into marketable products due to difficulties in funding expensive "demonstration" projects, according to Bernhard Schleich of SusChem, a European technology platform for sustainable chemistry.
Replacing Fossil Oil with Plant-Derived Biomass

OTHER
Genetics reveals the truth about King Tut A team of scientists working in Egypt has used state-of-the-art genetics techniques to reveal the parentage of the famous pharaoh Tutankhamun, the illnesses he suffered from and that he probably was not a victim of murder. The study's findings are published in the Journal of the American Association (JAMA).