Wang Hongguang, director of the National Centre for Biotechnology Development, admits that originality is still a problem for many of China's scientists.
This idea, also championed by former Monsanto Chief Executive Robert Shapiro , held that it made sense to group agricultural biotechnology and drug development together under the same roof.
But Patricia Danzon of the Wharton Business School argues that this makes little sense when most big drug firms have laboratories in several countries and often acquire drugs under development from biotechnology firms located elsewhere.
This is particularly galling for British scientists, because Britain was second only to America in the development of plant biotechnology during the 1980s and early 1990s, and is losing its place to more enthusiastic countries such as China.
From entrepreneurial growth, the progression of the digital media and biotechnology industries, and the development of the new multi-billion dollar medical corridor, New Orleans has witnessed an economic renaissance that is bringing new companies and investments into the region for the first time.
Eliza's technology also could be used in Blue Gene, IBM's supercomputer under development and aimed for biotechnology research.
This month, we have added seven new experimental drugs to our watch list of New Drugs to Watch, a sampling of the most interesting medicines in development at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Until that happens, though, academics and biotechnology firms will remain busy trying to lift addiction drug development out of depression.
Behind Zetia's Curtain 10.31.02 The development of the Schering-Merck medicine has vital implications for biotechnology companies.
The development of the Schering-Merck medicine has vital implications for biotechnology companies.
Many activities can be put out to the growing legion of biotechnology start-up firms, contract research organisations, independent drug-development firms and freelance sales organisations.
So when they turned to biotechnology in the 1990s to help boost their flagging sales and offset high development costs, such companies focused on easy traits that would be of immediate interest to farmers, their traditional customer, rather than to food manufacturers or shoppers.
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The major aim is the development of endogenous national and regional research capacities in the biological sciences and biotechnology in keeping with rapid scientific advances.
As a congressman, senator and vice president, he worked relentlessly toward creating disincentives to the development, testing and use of innovative, safe and potentially important technologies--especially biotechnology applied to agriculture, which has been instrumental in enhancing yields, reducing losses from pests and encouraging farming practices that prevent carbon dioxide release from tilling soil.
The Agricultural Biotechnology Council, the lobby group for GM crop companies in Britain, described the work as "an interesting development".
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