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Researchers can now reduce the cost and time taken to breed goats that can produce therapeutic proteins using gene therapy. Experts say these transgenic animals could cut the cost of insulin and other cancer-fighting proteins.
GE Healthcare has agreed to purchase UK laboratory equipment maker Whatman for £363m ($718m) in a move aimed at advancing GE's life sciences business.
A new technique that analyses the structural characteristics, and not the sequence, of DNA has revealed previously unknown areas of the human genetic code responsible for gene expression.
The Spanish subsidiary of UK-based biological nanoparticles specialist Midatech Group has signed a licence agreement giving it new leeway to exploit the therapeutic potential of noble metal nanoparticles.