Building a better turkey through biotech
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Most of the turkeys gracing the nation's dinner tables today have been selectively bred for their white meat for so many generations that simply walking can be a problem for many of the big-breasted birds, and sex is no longer possible.
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New technologies will shed light on how beneficial bacteria might help our health.
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The experiment is part of an explosion in the new field of synthetic biology.
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Learn how to handle genetically modified meals, international drug buys and other sticky wickets.
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Sequencing of the poplar tree may lead to cheaper, more plentiful biofuels.
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Genzyme Corp. is expanding its research  into gene therapy, a controversial and cutting-edge approach to  treating disease which most companies avoid.
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By Ian Hoffman Barely a year ago, when President Bush first endorsed biofuels as an answer to the nations &quot;addiction to oil,&quot; scientists already were salivating at biologically engineering ordinary grasses and trees into full-blown energy crops.
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ISTANBUL -- Markus Lehto's Turkey is a futuristic shopping complex with aerial bridges linking skinny-jeans shops to designer bag boutiques. In the attached apartment building, a pied-?-terre designed for the global jet-setter can cost up to $2 million.
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Turkish scientists have claimed that extracts from grape pomace can be effectively used as an anti- microbial agent to destroy pathogens thereby helping in preserving food.
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Massachusetts appears to have lost out on attracting a key life sciences project to the state. Kofi Jones, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, said the state's package of economic incentives was not enough for the unnamed company, which decided to look elsewhere. Peter Abair, director of economic development for the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, described ...
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Scientists have taken a first step toward making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one bacterium into another, transforming the second microbe into a copy of the first.
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The biopharma's outlook is cloudy due to stiffer competition in biomanufacturing.
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Traditional drug companies want what biotech companies have. Will the infatuation last?
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Biotech funds differ in their make-up, performance, and promise.
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Monsanto and BASF team up to grow better plants.
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Engineered E. coli proves efficient at churning out the biofuel.
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Seed and biotech companies see a big opportunity in developing corn and other crops tailored for use in ethanol and other biofuels.