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Presenting the results of the biotech public opinion barometer in Berlin: Patrick Dieckhoff, Viola Bronsema, Peter Heinrich, and Pablo Serrano (left to right) 07.01.2010

Biotech barometer: Confidence slowly returning

The German biotechnology industry is keeping calm in the face of the financial crisis. This is underlined by the latest survey of public opinion conducted by Bio Deutschland and the industry magazine |transkript.

Shown symbolically in the illustration are some of the complex metabolic and protein networks in Mycoplasma pneumoniae. 07.01.2010

Simplest bacterium reveals basics of life

A German-Spanish research team has fully characterised one of the world’s simplest living creatures. In the search for the fundamentals of life, they have concluded that simple does not necessarily mean simplistic.

The WWF considers industrial biotechnology as key to limiting climate change. The photo is taken from a climate protest in Berlin in September 2009. 20.10.2009

WWF: Using biotechnology to help save the climate

Efforts to bring meaningful reductions in carbon dioxide emissions must include the contribution of industrial biotechnology. This was the conclusion of a recent study from the environmental group World Wildlife Fund.

Biotechnica 2009: 650 exhibitors from 40 countries got together in Hanover. 15.10.2009

BIOTECHNICA 2009: Good mood despite crisis marks

Biotechnica 2009 was again an important meeting place for the biotech industry, pulling in roughly 11,000 visitors to Hanover. And despite the crisis, the overall mood was positive.

Over 100 medicines are already being manufactured using biotechnological techniques, such as here at Boehringer Ingelheim in Biberach. 30.06.2009

Biotech drugs raise costs, say critics

For a lot of patients biotechnologically produced drugs are a new hope, for health insurance companies they are a raising cost factor. This is the conclusion of a new study.

The German stand was among the larger national presences at this year’s BIO. 22.05.2009

BIO 2009 Atlanta: Poor attendance, positive outlook

Despite a sharp decline in visitor numbers, the biotech industry remained optimistic at the largest industry gathering worldwide. The BIO International Convention was held from 18 to 21 May in Atlanta, USA.

One of the largest biogas installations in the world is being built in Saxony-Anhalt: The 16 fermenters will be supplying up to 10,000 households with biomethane. 20.04.2009

Bacteria to provide biogas for 10,000 households

Biogas could represent an environmentally friendly and renewable source of energy. One of the largest Biogas plants in the world, which will use new technology to supply energy for thousands of households and companies, is currently being constructed in Saxony-Anhalt.

Researchers often work with cell cultures from which they must isolate individual cells for further analysis. 17.03.2009

GO-Bio project PluriSelect gains first investors

In 2006 Jan-Michael Heinrich convinced the jury of GO-Bio with his idea: a very special sieving technique, which isolates biomolecules out of a liquid. Now, the young entrepeneur convinced investors for his Pluriselect GmbH.

Cancer cells are sometimes attacked by the body’s immune cells. German researchers have now developed a drug that stimulates this process yet further. 25.02.2009

First German antibodies shortly before market entrance

The German biotech industry has been waiting for such news for a long time, and now it has come. The first antibody made in Germany has cleared its biggest hurdle before market entrance after receiving the green light from the European approval authority, the EMEA.

A centre of excellence for the life sciences will be established at the University of Mainz. The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation will be providing 100 million euros for the undertaking. 11.02.2009

100 Million for Mainz Life Sciences

The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation at the University of Mainz will be donating 100 million euros for an excellence centre for the life sciences. From 2011, it is hoped that the centre will enable Mainz to compete internationally for the best scientific minds.

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