UK Trade & Investment is hosting a delegation of Brazilian biotechnology executives this week, with a view to developing collaborations between the two countries.

Global acceptance of biotech crops increased in 2006, with acreage reaching 102 million hectares in 22 countries, according to a new report.

Danish biotech is on the rise and has outpaced its closest neighbour, Sweden, according to a study published last week.

For the first time biotechnology has overtaken software as the US venture capitalists’ darling, according to the quarterly MoneyTree Report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers last week.

What is white biotech? Can it save the planet?

The Hungarian biotech sector is ahead of the rest of the new European Union member states pack, but it remains stymied by a lack of managers with a scientific background.

A new study shows that universities in the USA still rule the roost when it comes to biotech research, not to mention turning it into cash.