Tag: Biotechnology

Pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca and Merck said on Thursday they had agreed a multi-billion-dollar deal to jointly develop key cancer drugs. ...

A new weapon in the fight against crime has been uncovered by a Japanese team of forensic scientists. Researchers have discovered ...

South Africa's competition commission said Tuesday it had launched investigations into pharmaceutical giants Roche, Pfizer and Aspen for suspected overpricing ...

Scientists on Wednesday unveiled two methods for coaxing stem cells into blood cells, a long-sought goal that could lead to ...

Almost one in three newly approved drugs in the United States turns out to have a safety issue after it ...

The absence of strong regulations on the importation and use of agro-chemicals poses a threat to human life and food ...

A former Deputy Agriculture Minister is calling for an end to the bastardisation of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) technology as ...

Scientists have used a smartphone to control the activity of the living cells inside an animal. The fusion of biology ...

A simple analysis of fish DNA in water drawn from two New York rivers successfully tracked the presence or absence ...

President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has appointed Dr Addai-Mensah Otchere as the Director of the Ghana Standards Authority mynewsgh.com can ...

The NHL will play its first-ever preseason games in China this autumn, its commissioner announced Thursday, as Beijing pushes winter ...

An unproven stem cell therapy that involves extracting a patient's fat tissue and injecting it into the eyes has caused ...

Ongoing field tests on genetically modified cowpea (Bt cowpea) have produced successful results and will be ready for commercialisation and ...

Gene editing, which has raised ethical concerns due to its capacity to alter human DNA, is being considered in the ...

Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a ...

What many have described as the biotechnology trial of the century came to a close Wednesday, with the Broad Institute ...

An influential US science advisory committee this week said genetic modification of human embryos should be allowed in the future ...

Folklore has it that “Legon” means ‘hill’  in ‘Ga’, the language of the indigenes of the general Accra Area, so ...

Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) wishes to thank the Parliamentary Appointments Committee for raising our objections to the nomination of Hon. ...

Ghanaian Felix Dapare Dakora is a Plant and Soil Biotechnology Professor at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South ...