Opportunities in biotechnology.

Strategies for biotechnology must take account of opportunities for research, innovation and business growth. At a regional level, public-private collaborations provide potential for such growth and the creation of centres of excellence. By considering recent progress in areas such as genomics, healthcare diagnostics, synthetic biology, gene editing and bio-digital technologies, opportunities for smart, strategic and specialised investment are discussed.

Mycobacteriosis-associated mortality in wild striped bass (Morone saxatilis) from Chesapeake Bay, U.S.A.

The striped bass (Morone saxatilis) is an economically and ecologically important finfish species along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. Recent stock assessments in Chesapeake Bay (U.S.

Real-time GUS analysis using Q-PCR instrumentation.

The development of new technology within biological sciences has resulted in a number of real-time PCR instruments that have become essential tools within molecular biology. This equipment has facilitated high throughput analysis of samples and optimal information gathering of completed PCR reactions for example estimating the copy number of a gene of interest that is inserted into particular genomes. Real-time PCR instruments frequently come with optional filter sets, e.

DRASTIC--INSIGHTS: querying information in a plant gene expression database.

DRASTIC--Database Resource for the Analysis of Signal Transduction In Cells (http://www.drastic.org.