Experimental brain surgery goes horribly awry; a dam fails catastrophically; a geologist leads an ill-equipped party to its doom in the mouth of an active volcano: these are the amazing and sometimes horrific stories of technical errors and scientific...
Topics: books

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More than ten years ago, the first genetically modified foods took their place on the shelves of American supermarkets. But while American consumers remained blissfully unconcerned with the new products that suddenly filled their kitchens, Europeans were.
Topics: biotechnology, books

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This book is an attempt in updating the knowledge by the experts that has accumulated in the last few decades on the yeasts which are eukaryotic unicellular microfungi that are widely distributed in the natural environments, and isolated from normal as...
Topics: books, yeast biotechnology

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Review "This book lets me wish to be a student again..." - Fred Sanger, Double-Nobel Prize winner "This great book is highly contagious, if you open it, you want to read more and more..." Jim Larrick, US-Biotech entrepreneur and...
Topics: biotechnology, books

{"title":"Biotechnology for Beginners","post_url":"http:\/\/science-biotech.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/biotechnology-for-beginners.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/science-biotech.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss","author":null,"date":"2008-09-13 07:24:00","summary":"Review \"This book lets me wish to be a student again...\" - Fred Sanger, Double-Nobel Prize winner \"This great book is highly contagious, if you open it, you want to read more and more...\" Jim Larrick, US-Biotech entrepreneur and..."}

The three finalists of the 2008 EUROPEAN BIOTECHNICA AWARD have been determined. The biotechnology companies nominated are Cambridge-based Astex Therapeutics Limited (UK), GENEART AG from Regensburg (Germany) and immatics biotechnologies GmbH based in TA.
Topics: biotechnology events

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