Essays on Biotechnology

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Abstract Nowadays, reaching to more efficient and convenient ocular drug delivery methods is a high regarded accomplishment. Nanotechnology via nanoparticles as effective and feasible carriers, raised as an interesting treatment method to transport ocular drugs to specific target cells. Due to presence of several barriers...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Frankenstein, the name of a monster, we do not know who the monster is. Frankenstein is a novel written by British writer Mary Shelley in 1818. Frankenstein is a biologist with a passion for the origin of life. He haunts the morgue with a criminal...

In the United States the rate of obesity was 39.8% and affected 93.3 million US adults in 2015 and 2016, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention data. The rate of obesity is up due to technology that is constantly developing. Technology that...

A range of diverse food sources is necessary to safeguard and maintain the health of human beings. Among them, plant masticatories viz. Phyllanthus emblica, Terminalia chebula, Terminalia bellirica, Piper betel, Areca catechu, Elettaria cardamomum and Nicotiana tabacum etc. significantly impart to nutritional as well as...

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...

A Computed Tomography (CT) Scanner consists of 3 major elements; a scanning gantry, a data handling unit and a storage. A patient is surrounded by a gantry which consist of several components. The scanning gantry has 4 major components :X-Ray Tubes, Collimator, Anti-scatter grids and...

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...

The major Kenyan problems of interest to scientist are Poverty, HIV/AIDS and other diseases, Agriculture, Pollution, Health care, manufacturing /industrialization and crimes among others of political nature. Biotechnology involves the variety of techniques that involve the use and manipulation of living organism to make commercial...