Author Affiliations: 1National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India; 2Department of Cardiac Biochemistry, Cardio-Neuro Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; 3Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India; and 4North-East Regio...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia worldwide, is an irreversible progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive impairment and functional disability . Devastating nature of AD leads to serious social and economic impacts on the healthcare systems which implies the necessity of its proper management . It has been demonstrated that patients’ quality of life...

A healthcare system has been the most important priority for all governments worldwide. Biotechnology products have affected the promotion of health care over the last thirty years. During the last several decades, Iran has achieved significant success in extending healthcare to the rural areas and in reducing the rates of infant mortality and increasing population growth. Biomedical technology...

Kazem Mousavizadeh1, Mohammad Askari2, Hajar Arian3, Fazel Gourjipour4, Amin R. Nikpour5, Maryam Tavafjadid1, Omid Aryani3, Behnam Kamalidehghan6, Hamid R. Maroof3, Massoud Houshmand3,7 1Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Tehran, Iran, 2Department of Biotechnology, College of Allied Medicine, Tehran, Iran, 3Department of Medical Genetic, Special Medical Cen...

Three distinct fields of gene manipulated biotechnology have so far been economically exploited: medical biotechnology, plant biotechnology and industrial biotechnology. This article analyzes the economic evolution and its drivers in the three fields over the past decades, highlighting strong divergences. Product and market characteristics, affecting firms' financing options, are shown to be im...

*Corresponding author: Sujata Ghosh, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, Chandigarh 160012, India, e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Sangeeta Mehta and Suresh C. Sharma: Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Department of Radiotherapy, Chandigarh 160012, India Rakh...

X Mei-Chen Lo, Ming-Hong Chen, Wen-Sen Lee, Chin-I Lu, Chuang-Rung Chang, Shu-Huei Kao,* and Horng-Mo Lee* Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Pathology, Saint Paul’s Hospi...