Word: biotech
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...post-doctoral education at the University of Massachusetts’ Worcester and Amherst campuses. The remaining $250 million would be allocated for tax credits to life sciences firms. The bill will have significant impacts on university-based and urban economies including Cambridge and Boston which both have burgeoning biotech industries. Newly elected Massachusetts State Senator Anthony D. Galluccio, who represents Cambridge, wrote a letter to the Cambridge Chronicle earlier this month strongly supporting the legislation. Gallucio praised the bill as a means of anchoring the middle class, generating tax revenue in the local economy, and making Massachusetts a national leader...
...opportunity that the U.S. will miss if it fails to enact the policies to match its technology. That's the underlying message of Earth: The Sequel: while America has no shortage of would-be environmental entrepreneurs - the same class of people who brought us the Internet and biotech - those solutions won't leave the laboratory without political support. Right now there are countless smart new ways to get energy that won't destroy the Earth, but they're not price competitive with cheap fossil fuel power because they lack economic scale. As solar panels or wind turbines are produced...
...study Researchers at the biotech firm Novocell report the first successful use of human embryonic stem cells (HESCs) in treating a disease--diabetes--in mice. After generating HESCs from excess fertility-clinic embryos, the scientists cultured the cells for 12 days in a medium that directed them to become pancreatic cells. These were transplanted into mice whose own pancreatic cells had been deliberately destroyed, making them insulin-deficient. Within 45 days, new cells began producing fresh insulin...
...future of French politics and honing her message in anticipation of a possible future run against Sarkozy, according to Craig. She intends to visit MIT’s Media Lab—which aims to find ways to utilize technology to improve quality of life—and biotech companies to craft her strategies for promoting entrepreneurship and economic development. Additionally, Royal will meet with a number of faculty members, including economist Amartya Sen and historian of France Stanley Hoffmann. Goldhammer said he thinks Royal’s meetings with professors is part of her attempt to seek advice...
...road wasn't always easy, however. Folkman's first compound, which biotech companies rushed to test in people at the beginning of this decade, proved less effective in patients than in mice, giving skeptics yet another reason to doubt the approach. But that agent, dismissed by U.S. researchers, eventually won approval in 2005 for treating lung cancer in China, where it is extending the lives of non-small-cell lung cancer patients...