Word: biotech
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...Lately, the FDA has become a wet blanket that threatens to stifle the flame of biotech innovation," Weld said...
While Weld emphasized how Republican-led regulation reform would benefit biotech firms, Kerry argued that program cutting would hurt the delicate industry...
...ironies he culls from the history of medicine bode well for the disease-free future imagined by some prophets of biotech. Earlier this century, breakthroughs in antibiotics inspired similarly confident predictions that the ancient scourges would soon be eradicated. Now, however, we are faced with wave after wave of drug-resistant microbes, and we are running out of antibiotics to fight them...
...Cuba--that impoverished island 90 miles and an ideological half-century away from Florida--has begun bootstrapping itself into a biotech minipower. This improbable endeavor ranks as one of the most idiosyncratic of President Fidel Castro's ventures, and despite the anticapitalist rhetoric that resurfaced during last week's May Day celebrations, it may well prove to be the most profitable. The flourishing technological barrio that has sprung up on the outskirts of Havana is not only supplying state-of-the-art health products to local hospitals and clinics but also selling more and more of its goods abroad, bringing...
Joint ventures with foreign firms could bolster Cuba's credibility in the global biotech marketplace. While Cuban institutions conduct clinical trials of vaccines and drugs and informally follow U.S. guidelines for field-testing recombinant organisms, the perception persists that Cuba sometimes releases its products prematurely. Recently, for example, scientists at the Citrus Institute developed a monoclonal antibody to detect tristeza, a lethal virus that threatens to devastate the Caribbean citrus industry. However, although the antibody works well in Cuba, it is being offered to countries whose crops may be infected with different strains...