Initial benefit from genetic engineering likely to be medicine. Because of the high prices that drugs can command, medicine not food might provide the earliest payoff from genetically engineered livestock. One ambiguity involves the offspring of genetically engineered animals, some of which do not inherit their parents foreign gene and as a result are genetically normal. GTC s drug has already been approved in Europe, and the company is now conducting clinical trials in hopes of filing for...

Professor Atkinson says the powerful machine allows researchers to shift genomics, the study of the relationships between gene structure and biological function, up a major gear to the next level of phenotype screening where they can microscopically see the reaction of cell to a mutation or a drug. The therapeutic effects of existing pharmaceutical drugs on a rare disease affecting one in 2000 children is under investigation by Victoria medical researchers using a new, specialised...

The study, led by an international consortium of clinical scientists and genomics experts, is the first comprehensive study investigating the genetic basis of multiple sclerosis. Risk alleles for multiple sclerosis identified A large-scale genomic study has uncovered new genetic variations associated with multiple sclerosis, findings that suggest a possible link between multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. They analyzed single nucleotide polymorphisms ( SNPs ), that is, small...

This is where the experts believe universities can play a vital role in producing commercially viable biotechnology products and also in marketing them. However, the challenge remains in coming up with biotechnology products and applications of commercial value in an industry worth US$60 billion globally. Founded in 1925, WARF ever since has been working with the business and industry to transform university research into real products benefiting the people. Over the years the foundation...

Gaucher Disease: NIH Reports Novel Approach To Target Inherited Disorder by Staff Using a quantitative high-throughput screening strategy, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified three new classes of small molecules that may prove useful for treating Gaucher disease. Gaucher Disease: NIH Reports Novel Approach To Target Inherited Disorder by Staff Using a quantitative high-throughput screening strategy, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

Targacept inc. is just a little biotechnology company in North Carolina, with shares worth under $2, but they struck a once in a lifetime deal Friday that boosted stock by 20% The deal includes payments up front, purchase of 1.3 million common Targacept shares by GSK, and monetary rewards for reaching certain milestones in their search for product candidates to treat pain, smoking cessation, obesity, addiction and Parkinson's disease. The deal includes payments up front, purchase of 1.3...

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India has allowed cultivation of BT cotton, as a result, its production of lint cotton has soared from 16 million bales in 2003 to 38 million bales during last year. The varieties of cotton being sowed in our country are giving low yield per acre, which is 18 maunds, whereas on sowing BT cotton it would be 35 to 40 maunds per acre. BT cotton has more output potential and requires far less pesticide sprays, he added. He said that since 2003, the production of lint cotton in our country is...

The first applications for Washington state's new venture in bankrolling biotech research show plenty of requests from researchers at hospitals and universities around the state. All keywords about the research, descriptions of its specific aims, and the entire 500-word abstract have been kept from public view. The Discovery Fund, which is handing out as much as $6 million in its first round of grants, says it must keep secret any information that could reveal the details of an applicant's...