POSTS TAGGED AS Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering: Eliminating the Stop Codon

Harvard’s George Church, Farren Isaacs, and colleagues have used a technique called “multiplex automated genome engineering” to alter all [MORE]

H. Pylori as an Oral Vaccine Delivery Platform

In 2005, Barry Marshall and his collaborator, J. Robin Warren, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for [MORE]

Making Good Bacteria Better

The GI tract is a persistent battleground between organisms that benefit or harm the human host.  The notion that [MORE]

“Flying Vaccinators”

Why might the world benefit from a healthy mosquito?  Professor Shigeto Yoshida, at Jichi Medical University (Tochigi, Japan) believes [MORE]

Beckman Coulter Creates Genomics Services Company

Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, CA) recently announced that it has combined Agencourt Biosciences and Cogenics to form Beckman Coulter Genomics—a business [MORE]

FDA Approves First Drug from Genetically Engineered Animal

The FDA has approved GTC Biotherapeutics’ (Framingham, MA) antithrombin alpha from genetically engineered goats.  For more than a decade, recombinant [MORE]

Big $ R&D Spenders

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News reported recently that GSK’s deal with Actelion, worth almost $3.2 billion, for Actelion’s insomnia drug [MORE]