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Functional foods, nutraceuticals and plant-derived medicines may improve public relations for transgenic crop technology, but could leave manufacturers with tricky business decisions to make.
As the market for bioremediation using genetically modified microorganisms is eroded by controversy over the technology, transgenic plants may take center stage for environmental cleanup.
Combining the best features of IP informatics services and online patent exchanges in an industry-specific collective rights organization could free up agricultural research by creating paths through the growing thickets of competing property claims.
For regulatory affairs professionals as well as newly hired scientists, a solid grasp of regulatory science is needed to succeed in pharmaceutical R&D.
