The inseparability of the biotechnology industry and the state is a central theme in the analysis of the location and performance of biotechnology industry in the US and elsewhere. This paper reports on the results of a survey of US biotechnology companies looking particularly at their assessment of needs, barriers, strategies, and government programs. The paper shows that although there is an ...

BIO is a trade association representing more than 1,000 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations in all 50 U.S. states and 33 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of health-care, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products. Our membership represents a complete cross section of t...

Ronnie G. Willaert 1,2,3,* 1 Research Group Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium 2 Alliance Research Group NanoMicrobiology (NAMI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium—Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium 3 International Joint Research Group BioNanotechnology & NanoMedicine (NANO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel—Ecole Polytechnique de Lausa...

Dr Hazen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Interdepartmental Biology from Michigan State University. His Ph.D. is from Wake Forest University in Microbial Ecology. Currently, he is Governor’s Chair at the University of Tennessee and professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Microbiology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Faculty Fellow in the Biosciences Divi...

Plant photoreceptors influence or control almost all aspects of plant metabolism, growth and development. Only the extent and timing of this control is variable (see other chapters in this volume). Many agriculturally relevant traits are either heavily influenced or completely controlled by photoreceptors. These include seed germination, circadian timing, seedling architecture, bud dormancy, le...

With the recent drop in natural gas prices in the United States, there is heightened interest to use methanotrophic bacteria to produce commercial products such as liquid fuels. This project was recently funded to explore this paradigm. This paper describes a bacterium that grows on methane and produces copious amounts of polyhydroxy butyrate. Methane-to-liquid fuels workshop http://arpa-e.ener...