Sejm votes for blanket ban on thesale and registration of GM crops

12.05.06 Warsaw - The Polish parliament, the Sejm, approved legislation banning the sale and registration of biotech seeds in Poland. Even though the law does not ban the planting of biotech seed varieties registered in the EU seed... more

Great Poland meets Berlin capital region

12.05.06 The first BioScience Partnering Event of German and Polish Biotechs was held at the new Biology Faculty building of the Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) in Poznan on March 31st. At the event the not-for-profit co:bios Foundation... more

Poland

17.03.06 Cracow - The 4th University for Industry conference “Life Science Krakow” held on April 6-7, 2006, will launch the concept of the development of a new life science cluster in Krakow. The idea for a cluster was born at the... more

Bioton aims for 5% of world insulin market upon enlargement in 2007

29.01.06 Warsaw - In early January the listed biotech company Bioton S.A. announced that it will boost its holding in the world insulin market from its current 1% share to 5% in 2007 on expansion in Asian and Eastern European markets,... more

Can dogssmell cancer?

29.01.06 Warsaw - Results of a new study led by Tadeusz Jezierski of the Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Polish Academy of Science, and Michael McCulloch of the Pine Street Foundation, San Anselmo, USA, suggest that dogs can... more