Wednesday Brain Dump: March 4, 2009

Monkey Business: glycerol monolaurate (GML), a well-known microbicide, may protect macaques against SIV; but future experiments may need to use a modified HIV strain instead; meanwhile, who will protect them from the University of Louisiana? 

Smoky Business: the tobacco industry is facing new litigation in Ontario, and FDA regulation in the U.S.

Actual, Honest-to-Goodness* Profitable Business:  The Burrill report marks this year as the first one to show an overall profit from the biotech industry.

*well, sort of.

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