Odisha biotechnology policy, 2024
The government of Odisha has approved the Biotechnology Policy 2024 to create a flourishing ecosystem for the biotech industry. This will further promote higher education, research & infrastructure development
Biotechnology
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Light ahoy!
Bioluminescence throws light on replacing existing methods to detect microbial contamination by a faster and cheaper process
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Spare parts... any takers?
The ethics of transplanting an organ from one species to another is debatable as the dangers involved are too many and unknown
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Institute revived
the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (icrisat), Hyderabad, has finally emerged from the state of limbo regarding its future. An expert committee has recently ruled that
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Biotech capital
There is a great potential for biotechnological research in Bangalore, opine experts
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Cultured to propagate
Tissue culture helps scientists protect endangered flora
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"DBT's role in policy formulation is limited"
A winner of the 1995 Norman Borlaug Award for her contribution to the field of agricultural sciences, MANJU SHARMA is secretary to the department Of biotechnology. INDIRA KHURANA spoke to Sharma about the department's accomplishments and plans for the
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The third connection
In what appears to be the decade s most spectacular event in biology, scientists sequenced the entire genome of <i>Methanococcus jannaschii</i> , a primitive microbe that not only provides fundamental insights into early evolution, but also holds a lot
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M jannaschii : biotech boon
The archaeon M jannaschii was originally isolated in 1983 by John Leigh (then at the University of Illinois; now at the University of Washington) from a sample collected from the hydrothermal vent
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Finally, breaking ground
TOUTED to be the best if not the only option for cures against major diseases, biotechnology had seemed to falter midway. Now, however, it is poised for a major breakthrough in treating cancer. A
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Fatal blow
Johnson Wax, a US based company, has come up with a microbe-based insecticide that, it claims, will be able to put off the most persistent of cockroaches. Two varieties of the microbe,