Tag: santa-monica
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GE brings off-the-shelf biotech drug factories to Ireland
General Electric is digging deeper into biotechnology with plans to build four prefabricated drug factories in Ireland, bringing to Europe a low-cost manufacturing concept it first pioneered in China. The new factories on the site will be owned and run by GE customers. The GE BioPark Cork site is expected to create 500 jobs when…
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U.S. clears genetically modified salmon for human consumption
By Julie Steenhuysen and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Thursday cleared the way for a type of genetically engineered Atlantic salmon to be farmed for human consumption – the first such approval for an animal whose DNA has been scientifically modified. Five years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first…