The safety of early applications of synthetic biology may be adequately addressed by the existing regulatory framework for biotechnology, but, according to a report authored by Michael Rodemeyer of the University of Virginia, further advances in this emerging field are likely to create new challenges for government oversight. Synthetic biology promises major advances in areas [...]
Filed under: News on January 7th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: biotechnology, government regulation, high technology, innovation
With advances in genetic research coming as fast as the papers or blogs can cover them, I’m not surprised to see the breakthrough announced today by researchers in Spain. According to Science Daily, researchers at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have identified certain strains of proteins within a [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
Tagged with: biotechnology, collaboration, disease, DNA, gene, genetics, human genome, illness, innovation, mutation, research, science, sharing, Spain
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.