Advances in molecular and cellular biology as well as biotechnology led to definition of a group of drugs referred to as medicinal products of advanced technologies.
Success in biotechnology led to a significant role in the state BioNetwork training initiative, and in 2005 the founding of the U.S. Department of Labor sponsored National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce.
Laying a broad basis for possible future prescriptions, the President's Council on Bioethics yesterday issued an analysis of how biotechnology could lead toward unintended and destructive ends.
Franz Vollenweider, of the Heffter Research Institute in Zurich, for example, is scanning people's brains to try to understand how hallucinogenic drugs cause changes in consciousness.And biotechnology may lead to a new generation of hallucinogenic drugs.
While there has been occasional conflict between scientists and environmentalists, white biotechnology should lead to a synergy between these two groups of people.
The advance, described in next month's issue of Nature Biotechnology, could lead to more accurate screening of organ donors and identification of genetic targets for new drugs.
Some experts say that the surprising finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Biotechnology, could lead to a revolution in transgenic agriculture.
Recent innovations in herbicide-resistant crop biotechnology may lead to major increases in the use of the herbicides dicamba and 2,4-D.
The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Biotechnology, could lead to a therapy for vaginal fungal infections in women and oral fungal infections in AIDS patients.
The method, reported in the November issue of Nature Biotechnology, could lead to safe and effective human gene therapies for cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and a variety of other diseases.
