BioBoard
•  Singapore is Home to First John Hopkins Division Outside of the US
•  North Korea Confirms Bird Flu Outbreak
•  Illegal to Copy Patented Drugs in India
•  Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ban in Australia Won't Be Extended

Special Feature
•  Strategic Australian Biotechnology Opportunities
(by Dr. Morley Muralitharan)

Industry Watch
•  Solbec Seeks Partners for Psoriasis Treatment
•  Geron and Hong Kong's BRC to Form New Company
•  Monsanto's Bt Cotton to be Marketed in Punjab by Markfed
•  BioWa Obtains Rights to Develop Anti IL-5 Receptor Antibody
•  SDS Biotech to Become Independent of Showa Denko
•  Equator Life Science Obtains Approval for Mesdaq Listing

Products/Services Highlights
•  World's Largest Parallel Protein Production Facility in Monash University
•  Agilent Introduces Latest and Most Comprehensive Microarray

Research Findings
•  Korean Kimchi - A Possible Cure for Avian Influenza?
•  The Contact Lens That Heals
•  Unraveling the X Chromosome Code
•  Tracking Diabetic Sugar

Agriculture
•  Gloomy Weather Worries India's Wheat Farmers
•  More Genetically Modified Corn Planted in Southern Philippines
•  Genetically Modified "Golden Rice" in the Limelight Again

General News
•  Gluing Broken Bones
•  Australian Center for Poultry Immunogenomics Opens
•  Singapore Establishes a Bioimaging Consortium

Conference Calendar