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Synbio News • 06/29/09
Biosimilars: Obama’s seven year pitch
Biologic drugs should face the same generic competition as standard pharmaceuticals after seven years, aides of US president Barack Obama have stated… Nature blog
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Synbio News • 06/27/09
Biology’s Odd Couple
About 10 years ago, biology entered betting season. An upstart scientist named J. Craig Venter jolted the genetics establishment by launching his own gene-sequencing outfit, funded by commercial investment, and setting off toward biology’s holy grail—the human genome—on his own… Newsweek
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Synbio News • 06/23/09
Venter Institute Gets $8.8 Million in Stimulus Funding
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said today it is providing $42 million to The Human Microbiome Project’s three large-scale sequencing centers. One of the centers is J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, MD… Xconomy
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Synbio News • 06/16/09
Alternative Feedstocks Boost Ethanol Production
Members of the biofuels industry are ready to meet the challenge of producing replacements for petrochemical fuels that will be cost-competitive and renewable, and will meet the increasingly stringent demands of the green revolution…. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
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Synbio News • 06/15/09
Algae-based Biofuels Moving Ever So Slowly to Market
Algae-based biofuels hold enormous promise as an alternative transportation fuel, but investors had better have patience. … earth2tech.com
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Synbio News • 06/15/09
New Glimpses of Life’s Puzzling Origins
[…] Chemists and biologists are thus pretty much on their own in figuring out how life started. For lack of fossil evidence, they have no guide as to when, where or how the first forms of life emerged. So they will figure life out only by reinventing it in the laboratory. The New York Times
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Synbio News • 06/14/09
CAS Launched China’s Science and Technology Road Map up till 2050
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) launched its series report “Technological Revolution and China’s Future-Innovation 2050” on June 10, 2009 in Beijing. The report produced a road map for China’s science and technology development till 2050. AzoNano.com
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