Point of View

• Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Functional Foods
  
• For purposes of the Expert Report, Functional Foods: Opportunities and Challenges, functional foods is defined as foods and food components that provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition (for the intended population). Examples may include: con ... more »
  

Legal Affairs

• Licensing Problems with Diagnostic Genetic Testing
  
• Advances in diagnostic genetic testing have resulted in the ability to diagnose an increasing number of genetic diseases, often through the use of multiple genes and/or gene fragments. These advances have been accompanied by an increasing number of ... more »
  

Wall Street BioBeat

• Outsourcing and Globalization in the Industry
  
• Recently the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California hosted a one-day symposium discussing the "opportunities, challenges, and needs" facing the healthcare and life science industries as a result of a rapidly c ... more »
  

Feature Articles

• Creating and Educating a New Biotech Workforce
  
• John Radford told colleagues at a recent meeting of the BayBio Workforce Committee that he has "some concern about where all these new hires are going to come from." Radford, the executive behind the biotechnology industry compensation gu ... more »
  

• Biosensors & Biomolecular Interaction Analysis
  
• There is no doubt that sequencing the human genome was an enormous technical achievement. But it didn't lead to the expected quantum leap in understanding protein function or the disease process. Instead, we began to appreciate the importance o ... more »
  

• Expansion of Proteomic Databases Needed
  
• Access to proteomic data lags "very much behind the DNA microarray field," says Edward Marcotte, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas, Austin (UTA). This paucity of large-sca ... more »
  

• Making Innovation Work in Drug Discovery
  
• Susan Aldridge, Ph.D.
• Many different influences have contributed to the decline in innovation and productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, delegates were told at IBC's "Drug Discovery Technology Europe 2005" conference in London. There is, however, no ... more »