Biotechnology

I came across Proteintech while researching biotechnology companies in the Chicago area, and was impressed by its history and continuing contribution to develop high quality antibodies for researchers, including a highly cited Alzheimer’s research paper. As a person with a passionate curiosity for biotechnology and the future of science, Proteintech would surely benefit from my performance-driven salesmanship and attitude. Having worked a multitude of jobs over the past nine years, I have…

baby to help save the sick child. The cord from the newborn baby hold stem cell that can be used to revise the disease the other child has. The technique involves in vitro fertilization follow by genetic testing of the embryos (The regulation of biotechnologies, 2004). Though that sounds wonderful there is a lot issue with that. The baby is not harmed, but they are refereed as ‘savior siblings’. While this can be problematic, there is no statistic of how many of these ‘savior siblings’ children…

I was able to see an example of this and other biotechnology at work on the Fraser River in British Columbia this summer. During the construction of the Canadian Northern Railway in 1914, a very large landslide was triggered and filled in a large portion of the river, forcing the water to flow too fast for…

Purinex was as a drug discovery and evolution company located in Syracuse, New York. “The company sought to commercialize therapeutic compounds based on its purine drug-development platform.” The company evolved procedure for making small molecules that acted as selective agonists or antagonists. The company consisted of 14 employees and the company has a chemistry laboratory, and 35 pending patents in the purine field. During 2004, the company promised two drug treatment: the first one for…

There are many types of rice, such as brown rice, sticky rice, and long-grain rice. They are all good for the human need, but what about the “Golden Rice”? In “Can GMOs Help End World Hunger?”, by John Robbins, the author explains how genetically engineered rice has failed to help the world hunger, and what he has discovered as the real purpose of Monsanto. At the beginning Robbins has used reliable sources to inform what was the “golden rice,” and he has well explained the advantage and…

which many important discoveries and inventions have been made possible. Biotechnology is the field emerging with full rush in the employment of microbes in human welfare. Following are the fields discussed in which microbes are being usefully employed. Biotechnology The applications of microbiology on a wider and a commercial level to produce common foods and chemicals and to ease the lives of humans, is known as Biotechnology. It uses microbes or other life forms to produce commercially used…

science in my higher studies. With this aspiration in my mind, I joined for my under- graduate and post- graduate course in Biotechnology at St. Berchmans College (affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University) Kerala, one among India’s best institutes for Biotechnology. I received the degree of Master of Science in Biotechnology in 2008 and Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology and Botany (Double main) in 2006 from University of Mahatma Gandhi, India. I think one of my most distinguishing…

or destiny?”, or “should we live forever?” These questions hit hard on society, because of the Perfect storm of genetic engineering and ethics. Caused by “Societal demand for an account of ethical issues occasioned by the science in general and biotechnology in particular”, “appalling societal illiteracy with regards to science”, “poor understanding of ethics by society”, “Gresham’s Law for Ethics”, “Entrenched scientific ideology denying the relevance of ethics to science, leading to poor…

working to find a solution to this growing problem. There are many solutions to this problem but most them are controversial and will be hard to put into place. Some of these solutions include: educating the public, installing the opt-out law, and biotechnology. My opinion is, with the increase of technology and medicine we should be able to save more lives. Many people do not believe in these solutions or even organ donation. Many believe that organ donation is inhumane, do not believe in…

You are a tomato farmer whose crops are threatened by a persistent species of beetle. Each year, you spend large sums of money for pesticides to protect your crops. A biotechnology company introduces a new strain of tomato plant that produces a natural pesticide, making it resistant to the beetle. By switching to this new strain, you could avoid both the beetle and the chemical pesticides traditionally needed to fight it. As a family physician, you often treat children who suffer from infectious…