Essays on Biotechnology

Albeit juvenile but with the conscience that a youngster encompasses, I used to speculate over ostensibly simple phenomenon; for instance, what makes milk turn into yogurt? Why our food items get spoiled on putting it in open air for certain time period? Who could have...

Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification, is the direct manipulation of an organism’s genes using biotechnology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel...

This career episode presents my unpublished undergraduate thesis conducted individually during my final year under the supervision of my major adviser. I fulfilled this as a final project in completion for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering Major in Pulp and Paper...

Genetic modification is the area of biotechnology which concerns itself with the manipulation of genetic material in living organisms and enabling them to perform a specific function. New developments leading to modern genetic modification which took place in 1946 where scientists first discovered that genetic...

Has anyone ever wondered how biotechnology has become a part of everyone’s lives, and how this will keep leading the world towards a better and brighter future? Over the past 10,000 years, biotechnology has been used in many ways. Biotechnology has been applied to numerous...

Biotechnology is the use of biological processes to help solve problems in the world. Through the use of living cells, biotechnology allows for the efficient manufacturing of various useful products. Biotechnology encompasses many diverse fields, from immunology, to renewable energy, to agriculture. The products of...

As Rifkin (n.d.) had said, “Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I’m sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows”, it is quite true. In 2018, Dr. Mehmet Oz had invited guests to debate in his show on the topic of...

Biotechnology is the use of living organisms for the welfare of mankind. Biotechnology refers to the understanding the metabolism of cells, also considers the characteristics of individual bio-molecules and their job in interaction networks. Mathematical modeling has become an important element to understand the complexity...

Food is the nutrients that people or animals eat or drink or that plant absorbs to maintain life and growth. With the huge increasing population of the world, the food production from natural resources could not meet their needs. So the researchers move to produce...

Abstract Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme facilitates the technological up gradation of MSE’s by providing capital subsidy of 15 percent (on institutional finance of up to Rs 1 crore availed by them) for introducing sophisticated technology in the approved 51 subsectors/ products. Its main intention...

Canis lupus familiaris ­ is now more physically diverse than it ever was. Scientists are still clueless as to how dogs nowadays have little to no resemblance to wolves, their ancestors. Somewhere along the way, wolves lost their traits. Most modern-day dogs would not be...

In case the genomic time can be said to have an exact birth date, it was within the middle of the appearance of the series, on April 14, 2003. That was when the worldwide exertion known as the Human Genome Extend put an effort to...

Living things are all made up of cells. Cells are the smallest unit of all living organisms. Without cells there wouldn’t be any life. So, once you have made cells you could make life. The characteristics that define life are the ability respond to the...

Germination is the process in which a seedling starts to grow and develops and sprouts into a new plant. Germination is used in many places around the world and it is a small step to improving and growing the natural environment around us. Seedlings tend...

Derived Variety (EDV) was introduced by the UPOV in 1991 and was aimed at broadening the scope of protection for breeders on parent varieties by way of creating dependency between parent and their EDV. The traditional plant breeding is cumbersome and time consuming but with...

A study released March 14 concluded that more than 500,000 people could die due to the effects of climate change on food production. And it isn’t the first warning. This headline comes after a 2013 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture saying that climate...

In the words of Gregory Stock, “… we are going to alter ourselves every bit as much as we have changed the world around us, and it’s going to happen a lot sooner than people imagine.” In his 2003 Ted Talk titled, “To Upgrade Is...

In Germany the x-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895 and in 1905 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his contributions to physics. After this discovery, the new x-ray technology was rapidly applied in clinical medicine. There is no published information...

Lots of fungi are useful to humans and have been exploited both industrially and commercially. Societies have utilized fungi for centuries in a wide variety of ways by capitalizing on the metabolism and metabolites (chemicals made from metabolism) produced. The best known and the oldest...