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Harvard is the world’s leading university in biotech research, but lags far behind MIT in converting its ideas into marketable technology, according to a study released last week. The study, conducted by the Milken Institute, an economics think tank, ranks Harvard first in terms of the number of biotech papers published and cited—ahead of MIT, which is ranked 21st. However, MIT is much more successful than Harvard in “technology transfer”—converting ideas into applicable technology—and does particularly well in creating startup...
...women plant breeders and agricultural scientists has grown in recent years in places like Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Most African women scientists who are 40 or older "come from the land," says Margaret Karembu, director of the Nairobi office of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. "Our lives really revolved around the village and food production. We know what it means to have to collect water, to have to harvest all day. When you have more women like that being exposed to technology, it helps because they are more likely to work on ways to help...
...keep its economy chugging, the Singapore government in the past has implemented farsighted policies to attract electronics manufacturers and biotech start-ups?and the masters program at SMU is part of another official quest: Singapore is determined to become a private-banking haven to rival Switzerland. Several years ago, the city-state's leaders recognized that despite its transparent legal system, low taxes and stable government, Singapore (population 4.2 million) really wasn't big enough to challenge Hong Kong or Tokyo as an Asian center for investment and merchant banking. But tiny Switzerland manages to punch way above its economic...
...also received about $2.5 million in government research grants, a chunk of which came from the city. Today, Lu's drug-development firm, Shenzhen Chipscreen Biosciences, employs about 45 people working to develop cancer and diabetes treatments in a university-style building at a research park designated for biotech outfits and other advanced start-ups. "If we built this company somewhere else," says Lu, "I don't think we'd have such good luck...
...Rosalynn Gill-Garrison couldn't disagree more. The chief scientific officer of Colorado biotech Sciona, one of the companies probed by the GAO, says her firm's reports differed for each fictional customer because each report is a function of both the genetic and the lifestyle information provided. Change half the function, she says, and you?re bound to get a different result. And although she concedes that nutrigenomics is a young field, she disagrees vehemently with the GAO?s claim that her company cannot back up its reports with sound science. "Can we tell you that in 30 years...