Pam Holland-Moritz

Biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies seeking to train employees, or even to create their own "online university" can now partner with The Pharmaceutical Institute (PI, Raleigh, NC, www.pharmainstitute.com).

Several recent approvals highlight progress in developing both prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines.

A symposium at the AAPS National Biotechnology Conference in Boston, June 19-22, 2006, addressed key concerns and new developments in manufacturing biologic products in a sterile environment.

The moral to the story is that the human body is immensely more complex than any computer that we've been able to dream up.