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  1. Food Safety News

    Researchers look at how human cells combat Salmonella

    By News Desk

    A cellular recycling process can help combat Salmonella, according to researchers at the University of Warwick. This process, called autophagy, could also prevent other bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Shigella,…

  2. Life Sciences Legal Insights

    Which Way to the Exits for Biotech?

    By Michael T. Esquivel

    With 58 U.S. biopharma IPOs in 2018, the biotech industry entered the new year with confidence. By all appearances, the longest and largest biotech IPO window in history was not…

  3. The Daily Intake

    FDA Promotes Programs for Safe Use of Biotechnology

    By Keller and Heckman LLP

    Drs. Susan Mayne, head of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), and Dennis Keefe (head of CFSAN’s Office of Food Additive Safety)…

  4. The Right Coast

    China is pushing hard to overtake Silicon Valley and win the biotech race, and gain control of the world s biological data | South China Morning Post

    By Thomas A. Smith

    AI is increasingly used to map and measure our biological functions. Many corporate AI platforms are already privy to our online behaviour, relationships, health and emotional states but, increasingly, they…

  5. A Seat at the Table

    FDA Releases Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan

    By Joe Levitt, Mary Lancaster

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released its Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan (“Action Plan”). The Action Plan provides an overview of the key priorities FDA…

  6. The Daily Intake

    FDA Announces Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan

    By Keller and Heckman LLP

    In an October 30 press release, FDA announced their new Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan in an effort to foster advances in the field as new technologies to…

  7. The Right Coast

    Spidergoats to the rescue! How to make silk from milk with genetic engineering | Aeon Videos

    By Thomas A. Smith

    Silk from orb-weaving spiders is versatile and valuable. But, unfortunately for us, spiders are territorial and cannibalistic, so farming them is out. However, the US molecular biologist Randy Lewis has…

  8. PTABWatch

    Play the Claim

    By Sandip H. Patel

    Monsanto Technology LLC v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. Appeal 2017-1032 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 5, 2018), illustrates “[t]he life of a patent solicitor has always been a hard one.” [1]…

  9. Biosimilars Law Bulletin

    Genentech’s Carter ’213 Patent Asserted and Challenged

    By Spencer J. Johnson

    In October, we reported on a growing number of IPR challenges to Genentech’s U.S. Patent No. 6,407,213 (“the ʼ213 patent”) to Carter. The ’213 patent, “Method for making humanized antibodies,”…

  10. BioLoquitur

    Webinar: Bridging the Gap Between EU and U.S. Biotech Inventions Protection

    By Dean L. Fanelli, Ph.D., Thomas A. Haag, Ph.D.

    This webinar is hosted by The Knowledge Group. On April 17th at 10 a.m. ET, Dr. Dean Fanelli and Dr. Thomas Haag, along with Jens Viktor Nørgaard of HØIBERG, Niklas Mattsson…