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Biotechnology is one of the world's fastest growing commercial sectors. Since 1992, the number of bio­technology companies in the United States alone has tripled. These firms are research-intensive, ...

We have always been fascinated with the possibility that science could some day allow us to edit or create the DNA that makes us precisely who we are. It has historically always been the thought that ...

French engineer-virologist Thomas Mollet examines cells infected with a Sars-CoV-2 virus at the Biosafety level 3 laboratory in Saint-Herblain, France. Jean-Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images ...

China is moving fast to dominate biotechnology, and the U.S. risks falling behind permanently unless it takes action over the next three years, a congressional commission said. Congress should invest ...

We can rebuild him; we have the technology--but Americans question if we should in a new survey designed to assess attitudes to modern biotechnology advances. A new report, based on a survey of 4,700 ...

Although microorganisms are minuscule and often difficult to detect, they serve as the invisible pillars of human social ...

Floriculture, Ornamental and Plant Biotechnology: Advances and Topical Issues is a network of review articles, research and original papers, and a compendium of opinions and techniques that deals with ...

Biotechnology encompasses a variety of techniques that employ living cells and molecules, such as enzymes, derived from organisms to produce or alter products and processes. In the plastics sector, ...

This course may be taken by undergraduate students in the Biotechnology Certificate program as well other students with suitable training in biological fundamentals. Biotechnology is a burgeoning area ...