Challenges of entrepreneurship beyond the South-Southeast axis
Challenges of entrepreneurship beyond the South-Southeast axis: how to promote bio-entrepreneurial protagonism in other regions? It is not something new that large metropolises dominate the ecosystem of innovation in bio, but how and why should we also promote bioentrepreneurship in regions further away from this reality? From the first half of the 20th century, […]
OPINION – How to get around the current crisis in Brazil
By Biominas Brasil and Serpa Group We all know that 2015 was a year of economic crisis in Brazil. Political instability, rising inflation, low growth of the productive sectors and the rise in the US dollar against Brazilian the currency contributed to the uncomfortable situation for many sectors of our economy. However, the pharmaceutical industry, […]
Insight – How DNA sequencing is transforming the hunt for new drugs
Drug manufacturers have begun amassing enormous troves of human DNA in hopes of significantly shortening the time it takes to identify new drug candidates, a move some say is transforming the development of medicines. The efforts will help researchers identify rare genetic mutations by scanning large databases of volunteers who agree to have their DNA sequenced […]
