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Bio-based Economy Gets $171 Million Stimulus from Dutch
BE-Basic Consortium
As of January 1st 2010, knowledge institutes, the Dutch
government and industry are to cooperate more
intensively and at international level to speed up the
introduction of the bio-based economy, an economy based
on renewable sources.
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EuropaBio Publication
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Socio-economic impacts of green biotechnology
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Green Biotech
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Quiet Biotech Revolution Transforming Crops
For the past two decades, promises of crop improvement
have been the domain of genetically modified plants:
mostly, crops supplemented with bacterial genes to
resist pests or weedkillers like Roundup. More than 85
percent of U.S. corn, soy or cotton grown contains such
genes.
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Red Biotech
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Study uncovers costs of drug resistance for bacteria
Developing resistance to certain antibiotics may come at
a price for the bacteria, new Swedish research suggests.
Sara Thulin Hedberg of Örebro University studies the
bacteria Neisseria meningitidis, one of the main causes
of meningitis. She found that bacteria that are
resistant to the drug rifampicin do not reproduce as
fast as non-resistant bacteria and are not as good at
infecting people. She hopes that her findings, which
form part of her doctoral dissertation, will lead to the
development of new, more effective antibiotics.
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Stem Cells Likely to Help Genetic Disorders First
Drugs developed without animal testing could be one
result, some predict. With new rules in place that
lifted restrictions on federal funding of human
embryonic stem cell research, health-care advocates are
looking down the line and wondering when the first
medical advances based on stem cells might occur.
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White Biotech
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Genetically Engineered Tobacco Plants: A Promising
Source for Biofuel
Researchers from the Biotechnology Foundation
Laboratories at Thomas Jefferson University have
discovered a way to bring about an increase in the oil
present in the leaves of the tobacco plant. This
discovery may be considered as the next step to use the
tobacco plants as a source for biofuel. The research
paper was published in Plant Biotechnology Journal.
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