Rising demand for biofuels is expected to be good news for the biotechnology sector, with the Department of Energy estimating ethanol usage could reduce U. S. petroleum-derived fuel consumption by up to 30 % by 2030.

" Bioinformatics plays a key role in various areas, such as functional genomics, structural genomics, and proteomics, and forms a key component in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector.

By virtue of its extensive biotechnology sector, its numerous major universities, and relatively few internal barriers, the U. S. has progressed a great deal in its development of BME education and training opportunities.

Europe, which also has a large biotechnology sector and an impressive education system, has encountered trouble in creating uniform standards as the European community attempts to supplant some of the national jurisdictional barriers that still exist.

" Emerging markets " funds focus on emerging markets such as China and India, whereas " sector funds " specialize in specific areas including technology, healthcare, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, energy and basic materials.

The city is also a renowned high-tech centre – the Turku Science Park area in Kupittaa hosts over 300 companies from the fields of biotechnology and information technology, as well as several institutions of higher learning that work in closely with the business sector.

However, the biotechnological know-how remaining in the wake of Pharmacia, as well as the presence of biotechnology research and education at Uppsala University, led to a larger number of people being employed in the sector in 2005 compared to 2002 when the merger with Pfizer took place.

Most vaccine development efforts are taking place in the public sector or as research programs within biotechnology companies.

The Granada Health Science Technological Park has created some high-skilled jobs in the biotechnology sector.

In addition, a new Centre of Molecular Bioscience provides facilities for interdisciplinary teaching and pioneering disease and medication research, as well as cooperation with the biotechnology sector.

It is devoted to management education, training, research, consultancy, IT and biotechnology for business enterprises in the public and private sector.

* Bear Stearns Health Innoventures, a venture capital fund established to invest in early-to mid-stage health care focused companies with a focus on the biotechnology sector

The community is part of the City of Thousand Oaks, whose economy is based on a small range of businesses, with biotechnology, electronics, automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, healthcare, and financing occupying most of Thousand Oaks ' employment sector.

Good number of scientific literature is available on key features of xylanase enzymes in biotechnology ranging from their screening in microbial sources to production methods, characterization, purification and applications in commercial sector.

While manufacturing has dwindled in its relative importance to the city's economy, there is still a strong manufacturing sector ( the fourth largest in the UK, accounting for well over 60 % of Scotland ’ s manufactured exports ) particularly in the areas of engineering and shipbuilding, chemicals, food and drink, printing, publishing and textiles, as well as new growth sectors such as software and biotechnology, 20 % of the UK ’ s biotechnology sector is based in and around Glasgow which forms the UK ’ s third Biotechnology centre after Cambridge and London.

Scot also works with the biotechnology sector helping to contribute efforts to the expansion of mankind in tissue and bone science.

* Blue biotechnology is a term that has been used to describe the marine and aquatic applications of biotechnology, but its use is relatively rare.

The biotechnology industry has also been instrumental in developing molecular diagnostic devices that can be used to define the target patient population for a given biopharmaceutical.

Modern biotechnology has evolved, making it possible to produce more easily and relatively cheaply human growth hormone, clotting factors for hemophiliacs, fertility drugs, erythropoietin and other drugs.

Lansing has a number of technology companies in the fields of information technology and biotechnology.

Recent marine biotechnology has focused largely on marine biomolecules, especially proteins, that may have uses in medicine or engineering.

Mineral oil has also seen widespread use in biotechnology for preventing the evaporation of small volumes of liquid during heating.

McAuley has also used biotechnology and nanotechnology themes in near-future settings: Fairyland describes a dystopian, war-torn Europe where genetically engineered " dolls " are used as disposable slaves.

The ability of yeast to convert sugar into ethanol has been harnessed by the biotechnology industry to produce ethanol fuel.

Recombinant DNA technology has dramatically changed the field of biological sciences, especially biotechnology, and opened the door to genetically modified organisms.

E. coli is the most widely studied prokaryotic model organism, and an important species in the fields of biotechnology and microbiology, where it has served as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA.

The advance of the life sciences and biotechnology has the potential to bring great benefits to humankind through responding to societal challenges.

Because the Christian right believes life begins at the moment of conception, it has worked for the regulation and restriction of certain applications of biotechnology.

The nature of these frames is to downplay or eliminate uncertainty, so when economic and scientific promise are focused on early in the issue cycle, as has happened with coverage of plant biotechnology and nanotechnology in the United States, the matter in question seems more definitive and certain.

To further boost their focus on biotechnology and the melding of business and technology, University Technology Park At IIT, an expansive research park, has been developed by remodeling former Institute of Gas Technology and research buildings on the south end of Main Campus.

Intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics, genetic engineering are among the fields where Shiva has contributed intellectually and through activist campaigns.

The Greater Philadelphia area has become the second largest area of biotechnology in the United States, only behind Boston.

Monsanto has also made frequent use of the courts to defend its patents, particularly in the area of agricultural biotechnology, as have other companies in the field, such as Dupont Pioneer and Syngenta.

He has been playing important role in the state-sponsored research and development of biotechnology in Taiwan.

The faculty has extensive collaborat9ons with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed for the harvesting of adult stem cells from adipose tissue, allowing stimulation of tissue regrowth using a patient's own cells.

Another factor influencing the biotechnology sector's success is improved intellectual property rights legislation — and enforcement — worldwide, as well as strengthened demand for medical and pharmaceutical products to cope with an ageing, and ailing, U. S. population.

In 1997 the Uppsala based biotechnology division Pharmacia Biotech merged with Amersham Life Science ( U. K .) and took the name Amersham Pharmacia Biotech.

It remained one of the top 10 U. S. chemical companies until it divested most of its chemical businesses between 1997 and 2002, through a process of mergers and spin-offs that focused the company on biotechnology.

The U. S. Microgravity Laboratory 1 was a spacelab mission, with experiments in material science, fluid physics and biotechnology.

The formal WTO case challenging the EU's regulatory system was in particular lobbied by U. S. biotechnology giant Monsanto Company and France's Aventis, as well as by big agricultural groups such as the National Corn Growers Association.

Although technorealism began with a focus on U. S .- based concerns about information technology, it has evolved into an international intellectual movement with a variety of interests such as biotechnology and nanotechnology.

This may be better understood by calling to mind the classification by the U. S. biotechnology lobby group, Biotechnology Industry Organization ( BIO ) of three " waves " of biotechnology.

Icos Corporation ( trademark ICOS ) was the largest biotechnology company in the U. S. state of Washington before it was sold to Eli Lilly and Company in 2007.

In November 2009, the New York Times reported that Joe Wilson and Blaine Luetkemeyer made identical written statements, saying that " One of the reasons I have long supported the U. S. biotechnology industry is that it is a homegrown success story that has been an engine of job creation in this country.

In early 2006, scientists studying the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus at USAMRIID announced a 75 % recovery rate after infecting four rhesus monkeys and then treating them with an antisense Morpholino drug developed by AVI BioPharma, a U. S. biotechnology firm.

He has actively participated in the development of biodefense strategy for the U. S. government, and between 1998 and 2005 he testified several times before the U. S. Congress and other governments on biotechnology issues.

In March, 2005, PatentRatings, LLC rated the firm first among U. S. companies for chemical patents, tenth for biotechnology and drug patents, second for computer and software patents, third for electrical patents, and second for medical patents ( See EarthTimes article ).

As many of these biotechnology operations include the preparation of medicines, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) enacts numerous regulations to protect the health of the public and ensure the product quality is maintained.