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A color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of red blood cells. Fully mature red blood cells have been generated in culture from hematopoietic stem cells (Giarratana et al., p 69). Credit: Biophoto Associates/Photo Researchers, Inc.
India and several other WTO-member countries are now compliant with international patent rights. Paroma Basu investigates the potential impact on biotech.
Genetically modified crops are often framed as the products of multinational corporations, but in poorer nations it is public research that is vibrant and attempting their development.
An ingenious screening method exploiting substrate induction of gene expression provides a rapid means of identifying new catabolic pathways in unculturable microorganisms.