Biotech Law

A Machine to Pick Startup Winners – MIT Technology Review

Aldea Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology startup developing an emergency treatment … asks startups to submit five basic planning, financial, and legal documents. It enters these into a program similar in function to credit rating software.

Monsanto-DuPont Trial Over Roundup-Ready Crops to Start – Businessweek

The technology uses an enzyme that acts as an alternative food-production pathway, allowing biotech crops to survive as weeds … DuPont contends the legal fight caused it to cancel plans to introduce its herbicide-tolerant corn and soybeans.

Cardiome Announces Workforce Reduction – Yahoo Finance

we face increased competition from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies; and other factors as described in detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission available at www.sec.gov and the Canadian securities regulatory …

Freelancer.com acquires Scriptlance – Marketwatch

Employers can hire freelancers in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design, right through to engineering and the sciences, sales & marketing and accounting & legal services. The average job is under US$200, making Freelancer.com …

Guarding the monster’s lair: Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State cover up – Washington Times

The law itself has taken six years to be signed into law … After my enlistment was finished I attended college and graduated to work in the Biotechnology sector. I have struggled against many things in my life including childhood … Continue reading

Bring CBI, UID under RTI ambit, says Aruna Roy – Times of India

PUNE: Social activist Aruna Roy said that central agencies such as the CBI, the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority … “They must own this law (RTI) and claim their right through the law. It is the best tool for claiming one’s right.”

High court ruling benefits most health care firms – Myfoxdc.com

The ruling could give the biggest boost to hospitals and health insurers, but drugmakers and biotech companies also will get additional customers because the law requires nearly everyone to have health insurance by 2014 or pay a fine. That’s expected … Continue reading

Warren: What Republicans want to take away – Abington Mariner

That is why President Obama used our law as a model for health care reform … Our businesses are at the fore of designing new medical devices and curing diseases through biotechnology. And our doctors, administrators, insurers, and others all … Continue reading

RONNIE CUMMINS: FDA must heed consumers – Fresno Bee

The law will also ban the routine industry practice of labeling … but rather rely on the word of biotech companies that these foods are safe. Americans want labels because GMO health disasters, emergencies or near disasters have already …

Cost-saving innovation for oil palm industry – star.com.my

Law said the positive result from the yield had them targeting for a maximum yield of 40MT per hectare by next year — more than double the production in the whole state. After an investment of RM4.5mil in R&D lab … Continue reading