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- Oilsands can be developed in a sustainable way: Oliver Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:01AMEnergy ministers began meeting in Kananaskis, Alta., on Monday to start laying the groundwork for a national energy strategy, but there are widely diverging views about what such a policy should look like.
- Grain News Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:00AMResearchers with the U of S Crop Development Centre (CDC) will lead an international $8.5 million effort to develop the genetic knowledge and tools to improve wheat, a crop worth more than $4 billion annually in Canada alone.
- Corn geneticist gets $1.2 million grant from NSF for gene instability research Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:14AM( Penn State ) The molecular mechanisms that control genetic modifications in specific tissues during plant development are the focus of a National Science Foundation grant for $1.2 million to Surinder Chopra, associate professor of maize genetics in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
- Truth to unsold GM canola Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 5:09PMTHE 49,000 tonnes of genetically modified (GM) canola grown in WA last year remains unsold due to grain quality issues connected to the severe drought and not market rejection of biotechnology, as suggested last week by WA Greens MLC, Lynn MacLaren.
- Why India can't feed her people Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:34PMAs much as 40 per cent of all the fruits, vegetables and food grains grown in India never make it to the market.
- Anonymous Attacks Monsanto Network, Releases Employee Contact Data Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 2:42PMThe hacking group Anonymous has struck again, this time releasing documents it said it stole from the network of giant biotechnology and agricultural seed company Monsanto in retribution for alleged corporate misconduct.
- Kenya: Reassure Citizens On GM's Safety Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:00AMGuidelines issued by the Cabinet yesterday on genetically modified foods clear up a great deal of confusion.
- Greenpeace attacks Canberra GM wheat crop Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 1:59AMThe CSIRO deplores Greenpeace attack on its experimental crop station in Canberra and denies it has links to biotech giant Monsanto.
- How algae could change your world (or at least your car) Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 8:04PMWill we soon be fueling our cars, applying cosmetics and eating food - all made from algae? That's the rather science-fiction-y premise of the new cluster of companies (many of them based in San Diego, home of the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology) that are growing strains of algae far more useful than that residue that forms on your swimming pool.
- Illinois professor adds value to agriculture through Israeli partnership Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 10:26AMURBANA - Grocery stores across the United States have at least one thing in common: milk. However, other countries are not so lucky, said Bryan White, University of Illinois professor of animal scienc
- Winery set to expand Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 6:52AMNorfolk council approved a number of changes to the Blueberry Hill Winery in St. Williams last night that will make it a much more diversified operation.[...]
- Landscape change leads to increased insecticide use in U.S. Midwest, study finds Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 1:25AMThe continued growth of cropland and loss of natural habitat have increasingly simplified agricultural landscapes in the U.S. Midwest. A new study concluded that this simplification is associated with increased crop pest abundance and insecticide use, consequences that could be tempered by perennial bioenergy crops.
- Landscape Change Leads to Increased Insecticide Use in the Midwest Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 2:33PMThe continued growth of cropland and loss of natural habitat have increasingly simplified agricultural landscapes in the Midwest. A Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) study concluded that this simplification is associated with increased crop pest abundance and insecticide use, consequences that could be tempered by perennial bioenergy crops.
- Genetically Modified Grass Could Make Superweed Problem Worse Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 1:36PMA genetically engineered grass expected to hit U.S. markets without government review could speed the evolution of hard-to-control weeds, and perhaps require a return to toxic herbicides scrapped decades ago. On July 1 — a Friday afternoon, a time usually reserved for potentially controversial news — the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that Scotts Miracle-Gro’s [...]
- Monsanto Looks To Bolster Ties With China's Sinochem Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:52AMThe sources cited by the Journal said Missouri-based Monsanto and Sinochem have been in talks for months, though it is unclear what type of deal the discussions could produce, whether it be a large joint venture, the sale of a minority interest or Sinochem taking a more active role in marketing Monsanto products in China.
- Press Release Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:00AMMetabolon Inc. Posted on:11 Jul 11 Metabolon, Inc., the leader in metabolomics, biomarker discovery and biochemical analysis, announced today the publication of “Dietary Leucine - An Environmental Modifier of Insulin Resistance Acting on Multiple Levels of Metabolism� in PLoS One (PLoS ONE 6(6): e21187.doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0021187).
- Metabolon Research into Dietary Leucine Published in PLoS One Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 9:42AMRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metabolon, Inc., the leader in metabolomics, biomarker discovery and biochemical analysis, announced today the publication of “Dietary Leucine - An Environmental Modifier of Insulin Resistance Acting on Multiple Levels of Metabolism” in PLoS One (PLoS ONE 6(6): e21187.doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0021187). Non-targeted biochemical profiling ...
- Deals of the Day: AIG to Dump Some Bankers for Next Offering Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 8:04AMDeals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity.
- Nigeria: Here in the Country, We Eat Our Future - Leigh Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 7:05AMWHAT attracted him to study Agricultural Science?
- Duke Researcher Aims to Leverage Discoveries to Improve Biofuel, Food Crops Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 2:30PMAiming to develop discoveries made in his lab at Duke University for practical applications, plant researcher Philip Benfey a few years ago co-founded the agricultural biotech firm GrassRoots Biotechnology.
- Metabolons Vitamin D Deficiency Test Now Available for Patient Analysis Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 8:38AMRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metabolon, Inc., the leader in metabolomics, biomarker discovery and biochemical analysis, announced today that it is now offering a tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) test for detection of Vitamin D deficiency. The test is being run in Metabolon’s high-complexity CLIA registered laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC. This test is available for ...
- Biotech addresses food security, climate change: Potential economic growth engine Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 10:11PMBy Jose W. Fernandez, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs By 2050, the global population will surpass 9 billion and require nearly a doubling of agricultural output to provide an adequate food supply. At the same time, the world’s agricultural system will be increasingly challenged by water scarcity and climate change, raising the risk of production shortfalls ...
- Plant Impact PLC - Half Yearly Report Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 1:06AMPlant Impact PLC - Half Yearly Report
- Blue Marble biotech business plans jobs expansion in Missoula Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 10:21AMA Seattle-based biotechnology company expects its Missoula facility to be fully operational within the next month.
- Take cotton success story forward Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 2:36AMSeed biotechnology enhances output and promotes resource conservation. Chinthi Reddy, a farmer in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, who cultivates cotton with Bt seeds on his five-acre land, says: “Life has never been so good.”
- Corn acres are busting out all over Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 9:40PMThe last time corn occupied so much space in the Cornhusker State was in 1933. The 1933 yield, coming during the dustbowl and long before irrigation, commercial fertilizer and biotechnology, was 22.5 bushels per acre.
- Trade pact target 'achievable' Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 8:53PMTHERE has been marked progress in negotiations on government procurement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Malaysia hopes to achieve the target set by November, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
- Monsanto Under Federal Investigation For Cash Incentives Program Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 11:33AMWASHINGTON -- Global agribusiness giant Monsanto is under federal investigation for using cash incentives to persuade distributors to use Roundup, the world's top-selling weedkiller.
- Regulatory Rx Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 8:50AMFor all those involved in food production, there ought to be considerable concern that, as Congress moves toward shrinking federal spending, agricultural research and food science investments don’t get caught in the proverbial meat grinder.
- Press Release Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 2:02AMThe Worldview Bio-Innovation Scorecard illustrates various nations’ strengths in such categories as work force availability, education and intellectual property protection, and what countries still need to improve their capacity for creating biotech innovation locally.
- Muhyiddin promotes Malaysia’s biotechnology industry abroad Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 9:32PMWASHINGTON: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin lent his hand to ‘sell’ Malaysia’s biotechnology industry to the biotechnology’s movers and shakers attending the BIO International Convention here as he presented the direction and advantages driving the industry.
- BIO Sponsored Events at the 2011 BIO International Convention Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 9:30AMWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIO Sponsored Events at the 2011 BIO International Convention
- University of Nottingham, Malaysian Government to co-host Crops for the Future Research Centre Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 6:05AMThe University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus is to co- host the first ever Crops for the Future Research Centre (CFFRC) in partnership with the Government of Malaysia.
- University of Houston's Biotech Program gets state grant Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 2:14PM( University of Houston ) The University of Houston has received additional grant money from the Texas Workforce Commission for its Center for Life Sciences Technology
- 2011 BIO International Convention Kicks Off Today in Washington, D.C. Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 6:00AMThe 2011 BIO International Convention, the world’s largest biotechnology event, kicks off today at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the event is expected to attract more than 15,000 attendees from 48 states and 65 countries.
- How to feed a hungry world [Tomorrow's Table] Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 3:17PMThis week, the G20 Agriculture Ministers gathered for their first-ever meeting to discuss potential measures to address price volatility and record high food prices. The key to any long-term solution is acknowledging that we need to empower the very people whose lives are most affected by food shortages. Three-quarters of the world's poorest people get their food and income by farming small ...
- Metabolon Announces Insulin Resistance Biomarker Poster Presentations at American Diabetes Association Meeting Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 4:43PMRESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metabolon, Inc., the leader in metabolomics, biomarker discovery and biochemical analysis, announced today that two posters highlighting the Company’s research into insulin resistance biomarkers will be presented at the American Diabetes Association Meeting in San Diego, June 24-28. The posters demonstrate how insulin resistance markers can be ...
- Obama launches technology plan to spur jobs Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 3:13PMInitiative seen speeding development of US-made high-tech products. 24 Jun 2011 4:10 PM
- Obama launches technology partnership to spur jobs Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 3:10PMPITTSBURGH (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday launched an initiative to develop new U.S. manufacturing jobs by teaming up government with companies and universities to invest more than $500 million in advanced technologies.
- BIO, BiotechCorp Announce Joint Hosting of BioMalaysia 2011, Pacific Rim Summit Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 9:09AMBiotechnology Industry Organization :
- Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 8:45AMWASHINGTON -- The chemical at the heart of the planet’s most widely used herbicide -- Roundup weedkiller, used in farms and gardens across the U.S. -- is coming under more intense scrutiny following the release of a new report calling for a heightened regulatory response around its use.
- Biofuels Digest, BIO Discuss Findings of Summer 2011 Bioenergy Business Outlook Survey Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 8:35AMBIO:
- Heat on govt to change pesticide laws Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 12:10AMAN ALLIANCE of consumer groups, medical officials and environmentalists is calling for an overhaul of Australia’s legal pesticides list.
- Researchers earn Clean Fuel grant Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 10:16PMResearchers at MSU and the Michigan Biotechnology Institute, or MBI, say they plan to use a $4.3 million grant from the Department of Energy to further their examination of alternative fuel technology. Money from the grant will go primarily to researchers at MBI, a Lansing-based company owned by the university.
- Government as conductor of new enterprises Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 1:30PMCOUNTRIES which have successfully implemented enterprise development programmes tend to focus on the needs of the local entrepreneurs first before trying to please external investors.
- N.C. Scientists Plant Plants to be Manufacturing Plants Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 9:30AMA new crop of life-science companies is putting North Carolina on the map with some of the world's most efficient manufacturing plants.
- GMOs and Peru: The Debate Comes to a Head Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 12:41AMThe use of transgenic or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is an increasingly prevalent practice throughout the world that has pitted complex policy issues against one another.
- Gambia to tap Mardi’s expertise in agro sector Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 8:34PMSERDANG: The West African nation of Gambia is keen to tap the expertise of the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (Mardi) to improve its agriculture sector, especially in raising the production of its main export — groundnuts.
- From one idea grows many: Monsanto official speaks at Rotary Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 5:35PM• Monsanto manager: ‘Sustainable agriculture’ has gone from a corporate buzzword to a guiding principle for the company
- Scientific American to Release Third Annual Worldview: A Global Biotechnology Perspective Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 12:13PMBIO:
