background: nano-biotechnology is considered as one of the mainly vigorous field of research in new material science. recently, biosynthetic methods employing both biological microorganisms such as bacteria and fungus or plants extract have developed speedily as a trouble-free and feasible choice to obtain nanomaterials alternative to more complex chemical synthetic procedures. the particular d...

Who is going to care for the growing population of older persons, especially those with multimorbidity, who are responsible for over a quarter of physician office visits? Many of my primary care physician colleagues tell me that they look after older people all the time and that they are excellent geriatricians. It is only when the child of one of their older patients brings her to me that I re...

Biotechnology research and development in Egypt was addressed in the 2009 annual American University in Cairo (AUC) research conference held at the AUC new campus in Cairo, Egypt, that took place on April 5th 2009. The aim of the event was to present examples of ongoing biotechnology research activities in Egypt with focus on agricultural and biomedical biotechnology and to highlight the expans...

Background Innovative biotechnology firms play major roles in the development of biotechnology industry because of their product innovations. Since 2005, the Malaysian government has increased support towards the biotechnology sector to drive this industry forward. The aim of this paper was to identify the challenges in developing biotechnology industry from the prospective of private biotechno...