Public biotech 2007--the numbers

Record profits and financing in the public biotech sector may be unsustainable in the coming years as economies falter.     

Trends in biochemical literature

Any working biochemist intuitively knows that the literature is growing. However, quantifying this growth with any degree of precision is not an easy task. But after my interest in this problem was piqued by the late Robert Harte [1] attempted to produce what is, I hope, an accurate and useful view of the biochemical literature.     

Waste biotech

US market for environmental biotech products for waste treatment worth $261.3 M by 2013 Marine pharmacognosy Recent patents related to biowaste and bioactive compounds Project profile: Concentration and separation of bioactives in food science Microbial-based motor fuels Dairy fermentation, cell factories and bioactive peptides Earliest genetic material: Waste from the stars? Marine bacteria use carbon dioxide     

New biotech books

The 60th Frankfurt Book Fair takes place in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, from October 15-19, 2008. The Frankfurt Book Fair is the largest of its kind in the world and is also the place to get to know and browse through the newest scientific books and journals published all around the globe. As not all our readers will be able visit the Wiley-Blackwell booth, we would like to seize the occasion to present here new book publications in the field of biotech, most of which are already available or soon to come.