The JOBS Act and Emerging Companies

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BIO is proud to announce the redesign of the organization’s e-newsletter. The new Communiqué is a twice monthly electronic publication replacing the monthly BIOtechNOW e-newsletter. Our new design and schedule will allow us to provide even more critical information about the industry as well as insights and opinions from BIO staff and industry experts.

04.04.2012

STARTUPS

The JOBS Act and Emerging Companies

Congress passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which is now headed to the White House for President Obama's signature. How will the bill affect emerging biotech companies?

HEALTH CARE

Bringing Hope to Patients

Through their individual stories of courage, hope and survival, patients tell us how breakthrough biotechnology medicines and therapies save and improve their quality of life...

2012 BIO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

Vote for the Buzz of BIO

Vote for the emerging biotech company that you think should win free registration to the 2012 BIO International Convention. Last year's winners were Amrita Therapeutics, OPXBIO, and Agrisoma Biosciences...

INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Synthetic Biology Survey Requires Industry Response

The Woodrow Wilson Synthetic Biology Project released a public survey soliciting opinions on synthetic biology. It is filled with biased questions that revive some of the oldest misconceptions about the biotechnology industry...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

Dealing with Rejection, the Regulatory Kind

Is the Complete Response Letter a game-changing hurdle for a biotech, or is it par for the course these days?

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Mayo v. Prometheus

The Supreme Court's decision in Mayo v. Prometheus disregarded the considered judgment of executive branch experts as well as numerous amici such as BIO...

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Food Crisis Requires an End to Grandstanding

The growing food crisis requires the full deployment of every plant breeding technology currently available, including the generation of crops via transgenesis...

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

India Compulsory License

"The compulsory license system might not really work because poor people cannot even afford the discounted price," said G. Balachandhran, India's drug price watchdog regulator...

2012 BIO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

Keys for Partnering Success

Thinking of hosting pre-qualified meetings at your BIO Exhibition booth during the 2012 BIO International Convention? Abbott Laboratories did just that at last year's Convention...

HEALTH CARE

As Vaccine Exemptions Rise, Risk of Outbreaks Intensifies

Generally, we think of vaccines as protecting the vaccinated. We often forget that vaccines, when administered to enough people, protect those in the community who cannot be vaccinated...

AGRICULTURE

Building a Better Cherry Blossom

The March 22 edition of the Huffington Post features a USDA video about DC's famous cherry trees and what's being done to improve them...

2012 BIO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

2012 Biotech Humanitarian Award

BIO is now accepting nominations for the fourth annual Biotech Humanitarian Award...

2012 BIO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

Meet 2011's Buzz of BIO Winner

Amrita Therapeutics is a bio-pharma discovery company based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, pursuing the development of novel, multiple disease targeting therapies for cancer...

Conferences & Events

04.16.12

IP Counsels Committee Conference

Over the past nine years, BIO's semiannual IP Counsels Committee Conference has become a popular and growing event among our members' IP and legal professionals…

04.29.12

World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing

The World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing is the world's largest industrial biotechnology event…

06.18.12

2012 BIO International Convention

Thousands of companies from around the world and all industry segments will be at BIO, ready to build strategic partnerships…

09.12.12

BIO India International Conference

The BIO India International Conference brings together biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies from North America, Europe and Asia to meet and explore business opportunities with India's emerging biotech sector…

09.19.12

Livestock Biotech Summit

This unique conference offers a focus on genetic engineering of agricultural animals including benefits, research and development, regulatory system, and challenges…

ON FACEBOOK.COM/IAMBIOTECH

Like everyone else, I Am Biotech will change our Facebook page over to Timeline next week (really, it's a good thing! check back -- cool and interactive fun ahead!). In case you have been worried, here is the ever funny George Takei to reassure all of humanity

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ON Twitter.COM/IAMBIOTECH

US researchers developed a way of delivering nanoparticle radiation directly to a brain tumor http://bit.ly/GH63zB #cancer

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ON Linkedin.COM

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new method to detect proteins associated with longevity, which helps further our understanding into why some animals live longer than others...

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Polls & Quizzes

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