Highlights in Biotechnology
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today it will convene its Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee (VMAC) on September 19-20 to consider a salmon that has been genetically engineered to reach its market weight in half the time of conventionally raised salmon.
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August 26, 2010
BIOtech Now visited with Jerry Pommer, Director of Animal Regulatory Compliance and Quality Assurance for Hematech, Inc. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Jerry is a member of the program steering committee for BIO’s first-ever Livestock Biotech Summit.
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August 30, 2010
"The preliminary injunction issued yesterday by the U.S. District Court blocking federal funding of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research casts a dark cloud of uncertainty, for the moment, on promising ESC research."
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BIO resources on stem cells
August 24, 2010
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