Biotechnology news

• USDA Takes a Fresh Look at Ethanol’s Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  13-01-2017 20:42
  
  Today, the USDA released a newly completed report reexamining the lifecycle greenhouse gas impact of corn ethanol. Where prior studies have relied on modeling and projections (often driven by assumptions) about these impacts, USDA’s new report reviewed hard data on farming and biorefinery performance over the past decade. The bottom line from USDA is that as of 2014, corn ethanol reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent in comparison to the 2005 lifecycle baseline for gasoline. USDA
  
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• #BIOWC17 Call for Sessions & Speakers Extended!

  13-01-2017 15:27
  
  It’s not too late to submit a session proposal for the 2017 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology! We’ve just extended the submission deadline until Friday, January 20, 2017 at 5:00 pm EDT.
  Reasons to take action now and submit a session!
  Approved speakers get 30-40% discount on registration. That includes access to 5 plenaries, 100+ sessions, access to our Partnering System to schedule face to face meetings and multiple networking events – al
  
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• BIO One-on-One Partnering™ Schedules Over 1,000 Meetings at J.P. Morgan

  13-01-2017 00:03
  
  Biotechs gushed over BIO’s partnering system and private meeting booths at J.P. Morgan 2017. Over 1,500 biotechs, investors, tech transfer offices, institutes, device/diagnostic companies and patient groups used BIO’s partnering system to schedule over 1,000 partnering meetings during the event. Scheduling over 50,000 biotech partnering meetings every year, BIO One-on-One Partnering™ was freely available for outreach, meeting scheduling and meeting space procurement in downtow
  
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