The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 31 foodborne diseases (11 diarrhoeal diseases, 7 invasive infectious disease agents, 10 helminths, 3 chemicals) caused by 31 agents resulted in 600 million illnesses, or 1 in 10 people, and 420,000 deaths in 2010. Infectious diseases that led to diarrhoeal diseases (1 virus, 7 bacteria, 3 protozoa) accounted […]
New public and private funding commitments were announced for clean energy R&D at this month’s UN climate summit. As part of the new Mission Innovation initiative, 20 countries, including China, Saudi Arabia and the US, plan to double their current combined $10 billion in spending on clean energy R&D within five years. The US accounts […]
This month, the FDA finalized three new rules that are part of the Food Safety Modernization Act. The Produce Safety rule includes requirements for agricultural water testing, use of biological soil amendments, and prevention of sprout contamination. The Foreign Supplier Verification Program rule requires importers to verify that their suppliers meet US safety standards. Exempted […]
By 2020, spending on medicines will total $1.4 trillion, a 29%–32% increase in constant dollars from 2015, but down from 35% growth over the previous five-year period. The volume of medicines used from 2015 to 2020 will increase 24%. Original brands, nonoriginal brands, unbranded and OTC medicines will account for 52%, 21%, 14% and 13% […]
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) October report on environmental issues in its member countries revealed that, in contrast to increasing levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, most member countries reduced their emissions between 2000 and 2012. But at 9.6 t of carbon dioxide per capita, they had higher 2013 emission rates than […]
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced the Genomics, Evidence, Neoplasia, Information, Exchange (GENIE) project, in which several academic medical centers from the US and Europe will participate. Although cancer centers are collecting huge amounts of information on tumor genomes, much of the resulting analysis is not helpful in finding drugs to treat […]
In 2015, 94% of the one thousand public firms globally that spend the most on R&D invested in R&D activities abroad. Their spending on these programs totaled $680 billion, up 5.1%, but revenues fell 1% due to the drop in oil prices. R&D intensity grew 0.2 percentage points to 3.7%. Asia is now the top […]
Recently, prompted by the success of two specialized firms, several newer companies have begun to invest in the research of academic institutions, funding R&D and start-ups. The two companies, IP Group and Imperial Innovations, each owns shares worth hundreds of millions of dollars in close to 100 companies. To realize the promise of university technologies, […]
This month, Science and Nature both published papers calling for a government-led initiative for studying microbiomes. These communities of microorganisms, which influence human health and the environment, are becoming the subject of much interest and research, yet relatively little is known about how they function. However, some microbiomes have been successfully manipulated, such as through […]
This month, the US FDA approved for the first time a virus engineered to fight cancer. A therapy for advanced melanoma, the genetically engineered virus, talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) is a herpesvirus that triggers an immune response against cancer. Cancer cells often cannot mount normal antiviral responses, resulting in their preferential infection by viruses. The infected […]
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