| Today's Top Story |  |  | | | Health Care & Policy | | | | - Big challenges in brain-mapping project, but payoff potential is huge
A project to map the workings of the human brain will cost more than $3 billion, according to some estimates, but the return on investment is potentially significant, project founders say. New tools and collaborative efforts will be needed to measure brain activity in new ways and to visualize the full spatial extent of neurons in the human brain, experts say. "This effort will be both the stimulus and the challenge to work and collaborate in ways we haven't done before, but always have wanted to," said John Mazziotta, director of the Brain Mapping Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News/Insight & Intelligence blog (3/29), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (4/2)       | Company & Financial News | | | | - Schizophrenia drug developer gets $18.3M boost
Intra-Cellular Therapies reported in a regulatory filing that it secured $18.3 million in funding. Those funds will go toward company and clinical development expenses, Chief Financial Officer Larry Hineline said. The New York-based firm is enrolling patients for a midstage trial of ITI-007, its lead drug candidate designed to reduce schizophrenia symptoms. MedCityNews.com (4/1) | Food & Agriculture | | | | - European Union's biotech crop policies are unnecessary, USTR says
The Office of the United States Trade Representative released a report criticizing the European Union's policies against U.S. biotech crop imports as the country gears up for free-trade negotiations with the region. The restrictions postpone the approval of new biotech crops in spite of positive evaluations by the European Food Safety Authority, the USTR office said. "These barriers not only harm U.S. ranchers and farmers ... but they also deprive consumers around the world an access to safe, high-quality U.S. food and agricultural goods," acting USTR Demetrios Marantis said. RawStory.com/Agence France-Presse (4/1) | Industrial & Environmental | | | | - DuPont, USDA team up for sustainable corn-stover collection
DuPont struck a partnership deal with the Department of Agriculture to create guidelines for how the company's cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa, will obtain corn stover without harming soil quality. The biorefinery, which is due to enter service in 2014, is expected to produce 30 million gallons of ethanol from 375,000 tons of corn stover annually. "Cellulosic advanced biofuel is here and it's here to stay," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. SeattlePI.com/The Associated Press (3/29) | News from BIO | | | | - BIO webinar on reducing your company's energy costs
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