DuPont Reveals Leadership Changes
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S 10 March 2008  Dupont announced leadership changes to strengthen the company’s leading biotechnology position and better serve the growing global demand for the company’s biotech-based innovations in materials, food, feed and fuel markets.
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Eastern Biotech To Offer Newborn Screening in Middle East
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 21 February 2008  IEMs (inborn errors of metabolisms) prevent babies from 'processing' food properly, leading to an accumulation of toxic chemicals in the blood, which are harmful for their normal development. The tests detect abnormal levels of these chemicals shortly after the baby is born.
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Biotech Crops Experience Remarkable Dozen Years of Double-Digit Growth
New Delhi, India 18 February 2008  After a dozen years of commercialization, biotech crops are still gaining ground with another year of double-digit growth and new countries joining the list of supporters, according to a report released today by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA). In 2007, biotech crop area grew 12 percent or 12.3 million hectares to reach 114.3 million hectares, the second highest area increase in the past five years.
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DuBiotech Announces Gulf Anti-doping and Monitoring Enterprise (GAME)
Dubai 29 January 2008  Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park (DuBiotech), a member of TECOM Investments, the Government Authority for Youth and Social Welfare, and the UAE National Olympic Committee today signed a three-way Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the Gulf Anti-doping and Monitoring Enterprise (GAME).
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AED289 Million DuBiotech Laboratory Complex to be Operational in September 2008
Dubai 27 January 2008  Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park (DuBiotech), a member of TECOM Investments, today announced its state-of-the-art laboratory buildings - the AED289 million Nucleotide Complex – will be operational in September this year.
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