Estonia is one of the eastern Europe leading countries in the field of biotechnology with a strong research facilities. Eneli Oitmaa, the CEO of Estonian company Asper Biotech, describes a market of genetic testing and its future as well as depicts bright and dark sides of Estonian biotechnology area...
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The applications of microsystems in the food industry are numerous. They can be used to micro-fabricate sensors, diagnostics systems and devices detecting contaminants, pathogens, toxins and many others. Thanks to microsystems, food quality and food safety perception of consumers will be appreciably...
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The history of biotechnology in Estonia began more than 180 years ago, when Estonian embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer made breakthrough discoveries about prenatal development of animals. Nowadays, two cities, which agglomerate the bulk of biotech enterprises are Tallin and Tartu. There are eight rese...
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At the end of January, an article concerning Estonian Tartu Biotechnology Park (TBP) was published on our website. Today, in an exclusive interview, Andrus Tasa, the CEO of Tartu Biotechnology Park provides us with the details of this outstanding project, which is a driving force of bioentrepreneursh...
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Bioatlas, the Estonian biotechnology company, is a very dynamically developing enterprise, providing high quality molecular biology product. Its mission is to establish the portfolio of molecular biology reagents, thus allowing researchers to find all they need for their work in one place. The CEO of...
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A lot of technological solutions are inhibited because of lack of sufficient investment and cooperation between companies and scientists. Both private firms require research and researchers need financing of their studies....
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In the past EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) stimulated the European dairy market so that the export of so-called bulk products (products with low-added value) was profitable. The intervention of CAP involved, e.g. intervention purchases and subsidies. Nowadays, due to the reform of the policy i...
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Almost every human trait and disease is the result of interactions between genetic factors and the environment. In order to examine the connection between genetic information and its effects, the database of genetic materials of the representative part of the population can be gathered, analysed and ...
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