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Sunday night, as the biotech world prepared for the annual explosion of chatter and loss-of-perspective that is the annual J.
According to the World Bank, biotech crops could increase food production in the developing world by 25%.
Now Bristol's bid has larger resonance in the high-paced world of biotech investing.
Genetic Technologies has incited a mini-riot in the high-stakes world of biotech.
But that just scratches the surface of the potential market for sleep aids, says Matthew Geller, a biotech analyst at CIBC World Markets.
For starters, Luan and Zhu are tackling the world of biotech labs, building a benchtop robot that will help coordinate and automate lab tasks.
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Increase the taxation on life science VC firms, and you are not likely to have the next Genentech or Amgen, which have led the world in biotech.
Libbe Englander, manager of the newly minted Investbio Opportunity Fund is betting that her scientific education will guide her through the tumultuous and chaotic world of biotech investing.
Yet the stock has lost 24% this year, underperforming its peers in the MSCI World pharmaceuticals and biotech index.
But Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ), the world's largest biotech company, will have difficulty matching the Street's expectations, and could actually miss, according to one of the analysts.
Alejandro Zaffaroni, a devout nonsmoker and one of the world's most successful biotech entrepreneurs, has always been fascinated with the cigarette.
We led the world in the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century, and we lead the world again in computer and biotech revolutions.
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Thus far the star of this new science has been ethanol, a car fuel made from corn, but around the world chemical, grain and biotech companies are working to produce auto paint, cosmetics, even apparel fiber from renewable resources.
Some of the world's biggest drug and biotech firms are entering the once-neglected field, including Novartis, Biogen Idec and Merck.
Such a change could pose problems for small biotech companies that are trying to compete with the world's largest drug firm.
Meanwhile, the FDA approved the world's first bionic eye and biotech researchers developed a painless sugar-covered vaccine bandage that could replace needles and doesn't require refrigeration -- which opens up groundbreaking applications for off-grid locations in the developing world.
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The Golden Throat managed to do what nobody had before: convince the world's richest man to invest in biotech.
From semiconductors to biotech to Hollywood, American firms lead the industries that are remaking the world.
The clash played out for weeks, made headlines around the world and led to a public reexamination of the anti-biotech cause.
Microsoft cofounder still a believer in "wired world, " though these days jettisoning investments like TechTV in favor of biotech.
It is also emblematic of how far the rest of Congress is from understanding how quickly the biotech revolution will be upon us and how dramatically it will impact all facets of our world.
Take the Monterey Murphy New World Biotechnology Fund, which has eked out 6% annual growth since becoming a biotech fund four and a half years ago.
But it should fit cleanly with Bayer's agrochemicals division, creating the world's third-largest herbicides business and allowing it to compete more evenly with biotech crop and agrochemicals giants Monsanto (nyse: MON - news - people ) and Syngenta (nyse: SYT - news - people ).
Kikkoman, for example, founded in 1630 and now the world's leading maker of soy sauce, has expanded into food flavouring and, latterly, into biotech.
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