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BioSci News Daily Highlights - Friday 5 Dec.
BioSci News Daily Highlights
1. Multiple blockbusters
in pipeline - GSK says
2. Hodgson to international
climate change conference
3. Eye implant may reverse
blindness
4. European Food Authority says GM maize
safe
5. Committee calls for genetic testing
guidelines
6. Into thin air - Kyoto may not matter after
all
Multiple blockbusters in pipeline - GSK
says
GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Wednesday it had 20
potential $US1 billion-a-year blockbuster drugs in its
pipeline to drive future sales growth and lift it out of a
lean patch for research productivity. ...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5541
Hodgson
to international climate change conference
Pete Hodgson,
the Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change,
departs New Zealand on Monday for an international climate
change conference in Italy.The conference in Milan is the
ninth fu...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5539
Eye
implant may reverse blindness
Scientists have described
their first complete design of an implant that will take the
place of light-sensitive cells in the retina of a damaged
eye. Current implants use chips that convert light
in...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5538
European
Food Authority says GM maize safe
The European Food
Safety Authority's (EFSA) Scientific Panel onGenetically
Modified Organisms (GMO) has published two opinions on
genetically modified (GM) maize NK603.The Panel has
concluded t...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5535
Committee
calls for genetic testing guidelines
The National Health
Committee is concerned that the demand for genetic testing
will swamp the few laboratories that handle it.The committee
wants Health Minister Annette King to set up a plan to
...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5528
Into
thin air - Kyoto may not matter after all
Since it was
negotiated in Japan in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol, the first
treaty that would require countries to curb emissions linked
to global warming, has lingered in an indeterminate state,
between ...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5532
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