[PharmPro] Counterfeiting – the distribution of imitation goods with the intent to defraud a consumer – is a significant and growing problem for manufacturers, brand owners and consumers alike in wide range of industries. But perhaps nowhere is the crime of counterfeiting more troubling than in the pharmaceutical industry where criminals have never had more [...]

[Newswise] The part of the brain we use when engaging in egalitarian behavior may also be linked to a larger sense of morality, researchers have found. Their conclusions, which offer scientific support for Adam Smith’s theories of morality, are based on experimental research published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The [...]

The development is geared towards restoring the textile industry

[Daily Times] The use of biotech cotton seeds can give better yields than non-biotech hybrid varieties currently grown in Nigeria’ an expert said on Monday.
Speaking at an open forum on agricultural biotechnology in Africa, the director general of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Professor Bamidele Solomon, [...]

[PharmPro] Gene scans for everyone? Not so fast. New research suggests that for the average person, decoding your own DNA may not turn out to be a really useful crystal ball for future health.
Today, scientists map entire genomes mostly for research, as they study which genetic mutations play a role in different diseases. Or they [...]

[Forbes] While the politicos, partisans and Supreme Court Justices have tussled over health reform, there has been a quiet movement taking place. I call it the DIY Health Reform movement. Developing models that aligned incentives around wellness rather than sickness, they have achieved the fabled bending of the cost curve.
At the root of healthcare’s hyperinflation [...]

[ScientificAmerican] During one of my trips this spring, I had the opportunity to read Carl Elliott’s book White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine. It is not always the case that reading I do for my job also works as riveting reading for air travel, but this book holds its own [...]

[WSJ] Friday’s WSJ features a brutally – I mean brutally — frank article about the dismal state of biotech financing.  There are few revelations (certainly not for those readers of this column who I know follow the space closely), and unfortunately, few patches of sunlight.   This clip from Play It Again, Sam pretty much captures the [...]

[NYTimes] A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end, what we pay the most attention to defines us. How you choose to spend the irreplaceable hours of your life literally [...]

[MSNBC] After three years of trying to conceive, a married couple in the Netherlands in their early 30s learned they could not have a child because the husband produced no sperm. They did not want to use sperm donated from a stranger, partly because this would mean the child would not share genes with the [...]

[Forbes.com] A month ago, Richard Evans, a veteran pharmaceuticals analyst at the boutique research firm Sovereign & Sector, sounded an alarm that should scare anyone working at a large pharmaceutical company: he predicted that annual price increases would have to either end or be sharply reduced. This could literally do serious damage to the bottom [...]