HEADLINES
Last chance to apply for the European Biotech SME Award 2013
Only a few days left until the call for applications for 2013 Most Innovative EU Biotech SME Award ends.The deadline for applications is 10th June. EuropaBio Most Innovative Biotech SME Award aims to reward European Biotech SMEs that have developed innovative solutions to technical, social and environmental problems. Apply now
Europe's GM stance denies Africa the right to feed itself, warns leading academic
A leading African academic has issued a withering attack on the “petty political mischief” of the anti-GM lobby in Europe which has caused Africa to fall behind in the global race to grow genetically modified crops. Read more
Biotechnology to fight air pollution
Using biotechnology to fight pollution is the challenge for a European Union research project. Under the spotlight – a specific kind of moss.? At the University of Freiburg in Germany, a team of biologists is growing moss, in a controlled environment. Read more
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Healthcare Biotech
Fusion protein boosts survival
A combination therapy of Active Biotech's fusion protein naptumomab estafenatox (ABR-217620), plus interferon-alpha, extended overall survival in a patient subgroup of the ANYARA Phase II/III study to 63.3 compared to 31.1 months in the interferon-alpha arm. Read more
Immunotherapy is not just for melanoma anymore
Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer over a year ago, Gabe Tartaglia was loath to undergo the kind of harsh chemotherapy that had devastated his sister before her death three years earlier from pancreatic cancer. Read more |
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Agricultural Biotech
Genetically modified crops and food security
The cultivation of genetically modified cotton in India has improved the nutritional status of small peasant farmers significantly. The findings of a recent study by the University of Göttingen. The scientists studied seven years, regularly more than 500 households. Read more.
If GM crops are bad, show us the evidence
It is nearly 20 years since the first GM crops were grown.Some 28 countries cultivate them on a commercial scale, and many hundreds of millions of people now safely eat GM food . Yet, to judge from the rhetoric of anti-GM activists. Read more
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Industrial Biotech
Molecular switch for cheaper biofuel
At the Vienna University of Technology, genetic engineers have found a trick, thanks to which fungi can be used for the production of biofuels far more cost effectively than before. Lignocellulosic waste such as sawdust or straw can be used to produce biofuel – but only if the long cellulose and xylan chains can be successfully broken down into smaller sugar molecules.To do this, fungi are used which, by means of a specific chemical signal, can be made to produce the necessary enzymes. Read more
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EVENTS
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05 June: BIA/MHRA Conference, London, , UK. More information
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05-06 June: World Research and Innovation Congress, Brussels, Belgium. More information
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17-21 June: BioBusiness Summer School, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. More information
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23-24 September: 7th Eropean Business Development Conference, Dusseldorf, Germany. More information
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30 September - 2 October: European Forum for industrial Biotechnology , Brussels, Belgium. More information
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09-11 October: BioJapan 2013 Conference, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan. More information
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14-15 October: Nordic Life Science Days, Stockholm, Sweden. More information
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17-18 October: Isbc 2013 - Third Central European Life Science Investment Conference, Krakow, Poland. More information
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22-23 October: Italian Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy, , Naples, Italy. More information
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23-25 October: World Congress on Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany. More information
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29-30 October: CropWorld Global 2013 Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. More information
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09-10 December: Biolatam Conference, Bogota, Colombia. More information
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