Topic: San Francisco

The news from China life science last week was replete with stories about deals and investments, some of them involving sizable financial commitments while others pooled competencies. In a similarly preliminary announcement, ChinaSF, the San Francisco agency in charge of building bridges ...

S. Korean firm to open major dog cloning centre

A South Korean biotechnology firm will early next year open a centre capable eventually of producing up to 1,000 cloned dogs annually, a company executive said Friday. "We need this new facility to turn dog cloning services into a full-fledged business," Cho ...
Pfizer pulls out of plan to move biotech workers to San Francisco facilityPfizer Inc. is pulling a plan to staff a biotechnology research center in San Francisco and will keep its 100 area employees in South San Francisco.The New York-based company had ...
Miners out in force, working the crowdSAN FRANCISCO Rimfire. Celebrating their MOUs at cocktail parties in exotic Latin ballrooms.Granted, such activity is the telltale signs of bankers and promoters and almost always a warning sign for Ticker Trax subscribers.So here is the ...

SV Life Sciences hires three new venture partners

SV Life Sciences has appointed three new venture partners: Dr Sarah Bodary will focus on biotechnology and will be based in the firm's San Francisco office, Gary Velasquez will focus on healthcare services, based in the San Francisco office, and Kevin Barrett ...
1243) claimed discovery of a human neuronal migratory stream to the olfactory bulb along a putative lateral ventricular extension. 1 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room M779, San Francisco, CA 94143-0112, USA. 3 Institute of ...
A renowned Australian scientist was named to run California's $3 billion (euro2.16 billion) stem cell agency, America's biggest financial backer of human embryonic research.The committee that oversees the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine voted Friday at a meeting in Los Angeles to ...

Greener Shopping Bags?

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' vote last month to institute the first ban on polyethylene shopping bags in the United States may reduce the volume of plastic in landfills, but, despite many advocates' hopes, it is unlikely to dramatically reduce dependence ...