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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Changing aura of contamination
From fireflies, glow worms, phosphorescence of the sea to bacteria, now scientists are using bioluminescence to trace microbial gunk
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The cost of gene info
A debate rages in England over the possibility aind scope of insuring genetic information
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Grudges galore
BIOTECHNOLOGY firms in Britain are extremely sore with the ministry of health. The statement issued by the new secretary of state for health, Stephen Dorrell, criticising the biotech companies'
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Genetic goldmine
Scientists have discovered a gene that may hold the key to breast cancer and several other mysterious diseases
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Silencing the saboteur
American researchers say that a gene believed to be overactive in most types of cancer can be silenced in the mouse by using a stretch of designer DNA. Once the gene has been sabotaged, say
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Unravelling life
Human DNA research is about to recieve a shot in the arm following manufacture of a new enzyme
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Beastly gene
A disorder that causes hair to appear an over the body has been traced to a mutant gene
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Technology's business
Those tiny, unseeable lifeforms that one so puzzled about till a few decades ago are all set to take noticeable strides into our lives in the future...though they aren't exactly in a hurry. Today,
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BIOGENETICS
A new patent dispute - the New York-based Enzo Biochern Inc vs Calgene Inc - is expected to tie the US judiciary into knots. Calgene's technique for genetically altering its Flavr Savr
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MONEYMAKERS
WASTE WONDERS: This had to happen: domestic and other wastes can go into making objects of daily use. A Canadian company, Low Energies Extrusion Technologies, uses flyash, clay, wire scrap and