decades, are overwhelming, he explained. The benefits to human health of biotechnological research, their possibilities of business and the need to transmit them adequately to public opinion to eliminate social alarms and create interest were topics that took over much of the interventions. The Chairman of the Scientific Committee of ASEBIO and Professor ad honorem of the CSIC, Emilio Munoz, spoke in his speech about biotechnology and the socio-economic landscape, and explained the evolution of the growth in the number of companies biotech in Spain and the characteristics of the three main areas of biotechnology: red or health, green or agrifood and white or industry. Emilio Munoz reviewed the evolution of biotechnology in the EU, Japan, USA, among others, and made an overview of the perception of this matter by consumers, being more defenders of this sector countries Spain, Portugal and Finland. The prodigious decade researcher Honorary of the CABIMER and former Minister of health, Bernat Soria, in its intervention, regenerative medicine, reviewed the main findings of what defined as the Decade prodigious, referring to all the advances in technology made the Decade 1997-2007. He also referred to the new advanced therapies which are underway, and defended the importance of research as one of the elements to emerge from the crisis. Also stressed that expectations are unlimited in science and finite resources and that the failure does not mean that there is no future, failure equals learning. The current landscape and the possibilities of applied to genetically modified food agriculture was the theme of the intervention of Daniel Ramon, CEO of the Biopolis company.
Ramon spoke of a new more precise stage that will solve the gaps food of millions of people, with innovations such as rice with provitamin A. He also mentioned the little knowledge that society It has even over these products. He also stressed that transgenic foods are most tested food in the entire history of food and that these foods have the same risks as traditional foods. For its part, the scientist of the CSIC Maria Jesus Garcia focused its participation in the second-generation biofuels, and the possibilities that offer to go occurring substitution of fossil fuels, emphasizing innovations such as the next generation of bioethanol.