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The congressional conference committee that hammers out a budget for fiscal 2010 will decide how much money Washington will spend on site work intended to allow for future construction of the $523 million National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Kansas.
The head of the Brockton (Mass.) 21st Century Corp. told the Enterprise of Brockton that the city must do more to attract biotechnology companies to locate in the city, despite its enjoying the second-highest "gold" rating from the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council's BioReady Communities Campaign.
Michael Hunter has been named Massachusetts undersecretary of business development. He succeeds Gregory Bialecki , who was promoted to the state's secretary of housing and economic development by Gov.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Genetic Visions said this week that it has completed the Illumina CSPro certification for Infinium Whole-Genome Genotyping.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Ridge Diagnostics has received a $202,500 loan from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to develop its lab in Research Triangle Park, NC.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – GeneNews this week said that it had closed the first tranche of a private placement offering of its common shares, raising C$1.7 million (US$1.5 million).
In Science this week, Jocelyn Kaiser interviewed biochemist Robert Tjian , who has been head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since April.
Though the nomination of Francis Collins to direct the NIH was applauded and endorsed by many, others raise criticism, particular on Collins' " very public embrace of religion ", as the New York Times puts it.
A new poll's out from the Pew Research Center on how researchers and the public view American science . After polling about 2,500 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and 2,000 lay people, the data show a gap between what scientists and the public believe.
There is a wager between Lewis Wolpert and Rupert Sheldrake on the predictive value of the genome, to be decided on May 1, 2029. The winner gets a case of port.
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