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2006 Edition
ISBN 1-59392-711-8
PDF $99.99
41 Pages
August 2005
This report will be your ready-reference guide
to the Biotechnology and Genetics Industry. In one carefully-researched
report, you'll get all of the data you need. Topics include:
1) A Short History of Biotechnology, 2) The State of the
Biotechnology Industry Today, 3) New Money Pours into Biotech
Firms, 4) Major Drug Companies Bet on Partnerships With
Smaller Biotech Research Firms, 5) From India to Singapore
to Russia, Nations Compete Fiercely in Biotech Development,
6) Gene Therapies and Patients’ Genetic Profiles Promise
a Personalized Approach to Medicine, 7) New Kinase Inhibitors
Are Breakthrough Drugs for Cancer Treatment—Many More
Will Follow, 8) Systems Biology May Lead to Faster, More
Cost-Effective Drug Development, 9) Pharmaceutical Costs
Soars in U.S., Controversy over Drug Prices Rages On, 10)
Stem Cells—Controversy in the U.S. Threatens to Leave
America Far Behind in the Research Race, 11) Stem Cell Funding
Trickles at the Federal Level While California Creates Funding
of Its Own, 12) Stem Cells—Therapeutic Cloning Techniques
Advance, 13) Stem Cells—A New Era of Regenerative
Medicine Looms, 14) Nanotechnology and Information Technologies
Converge with Biotech, 15) Agricultural Biotechnology Scores
Breakthroughs but Causes Controversy, 16) Breakthrough Drug
Delivery Systems Evolve, 17) Biogenerics are in Limbo in
the U.S., 18) HapMap Project Moves Ahead, 19) BioShield
Promises $5.6 Billion to Counter Potential Bioterror Attacks
in the U.S., 20) Ethical Issues Abound, 21) Technology Discussion—Genomics,
22) Technology Discussion—Proteomics, 23) Technology
Discussion—Microarrays, 24) Technology Discussion—DNA
Chips, 25) Technology Discussion—SNPs (“Snips”),
26) Technology Discussion—Combinatorial Chemistry,
27) Technology Discussion—Vaccines, 28) Technology
Discussion—Synthetic Biology, 29) Technology Discussion—Recombinant
DNA, 30) Technology Discussion—Polymerase Chain Reaction
(PCR).
