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by prudhvi lakshman at 07-14-2011, 02:48 AM
I'm currently doing M.Tech Industrial Biotechnology(5yr Integrated) and i like to know about the PhD(Industrial Biotechnology) opportunities in Europe and also employment opportunities in India and abroad.
Thank you.
by Samantha at 07-13-2011, 05:58 AM
Hi Biotech Folks,

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by garima at 07-11-2011, 11:25 PM
i m doing Int. M.tech biotechnology (5yr course). i want 2 knw dat wat will b d better option- job or further studies like phd/ mba..and why????
by rooshie at 06-27-2011, 06:06 PM
Hello all. I'm an MSc student working on the vitamin D receptor gene in human monocytes, and micro RNA. My colleague and I have been struggling to find suitable refernce genes, as we find that all those we are using amplify pseudogenes. Can anyone give me advice on which genes I can amplify as reference genes, and any sequences? Thank you
by biotech_nerd at 06-17-2011, 02:58 AM
cows produce beef and milk. but take a time to think, how about if cows are consumed by us (the beefs), how many are killed? a cow has reproduction time is about 7-8 months, but we consumed it everytime. the solution of this problem is using genetic engineering. the genetic engineering that makes mysostatin gene is deleted. first of all, myostatin is a gene that regulate muscle (size etc) not only in cows but also in humans.

when we deleted this gene, a muscle growth become uncontrol-able. they are getting bigger. some cows are using this genetic engineering by selective breeding. that's why we are still 'safe' whether we consumed beefs from this selective breeding cows.

in some human, the case about myostatin which is deleted is become 'mutant'. they are still human, but with a big muscle and hyperactive. the negative side in human, they can cause many diseases like premature or kidney's abnormal (the size is bigger than usual).

in cows, the deleting of myostatin gene makes the meat became more lean, because fats are deposition into a meat.
for more information you can watch :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-1jbwR21HI

so, we can save our money and no more cows to be killed.Smile
by Leahloughran at 05-20-2011, 01:32 AM
Hello everyone, I am currently a senior in high school researching careers in biotechnology. I am planning to attend BYU. It offers an undergraduate program in "Genetics & Biotechnology: Business track" or "Bioinformatics". I was hoping to get some perspectives on which degree is more practical, and what kind of person these degrees would suit.

I am debating between these two degrees as I am interested in both the business/industry and computer science aspects of biotechnology. Thanks for your help.
by GreinerBioOne at 05-17-2011, 03:14 AM
Greiner Bio One, located in Monroe North Carolina has taken into consideration a change in the marketing regarding biotechnological products. A major distributor of Roller Bottles has discontinued their production and Greiner Bio One has decided to ramp up our production in an attempt to fill the need for customers.

I would be very interested to know exactly what experiments/research CELLSTAR Roller Bottles are being used for and what problems have you experienced with their use?

Mackenzie Farone
by somnathtagore at 05-03-2011, 09:01 PM
Invitation for knowledge session on
“Bioinformatics: Contribution to Life Sciences”
On 7th, 14th & 19th May, 2011
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The Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics was established in the year 2003, with an aim to impart knowledge of this interdisciplinary science at graduate and post graduate level and provide consultancy to various research organization and academic institutes.

We are currently offering the following courses-
B.Tech Biotechnology
B.Tech Bioinformatics
B.Tech Biomedical Engineering
M.Tech Biotechnology
M.Tech Bioinformatics
M.Tech Integrated Biotechnology
M.Sc Biotechnology
M.Sc Bioinformatics
M.Sc Genetic Engineering

It gives me immense pleasure in announcing that our Bioinformatics community-“JanuGanak” is organizing a knowledge session on “Bioinformatics: Contribution to Life Sciences”. The main emphasis of this session would be to impart knowledge in Bioinformatics and to create an understanding regarding the avenues in the field of Drug Designing, System Biology, Sequence Analysis and Molecular Modeling.

In this regard I would like to invite you and your parents to please come and get acquainted with the imminent science field.

Target Audience - : Biotechnology aspirants, +2 students and their parents, Final year B.Tech, B.Sc, M.Sc, M.Tech Life Science and Computer Science students, Lecturers from Junior colleges.
For free registration of Knowledge session.

Contact – Mr. Pramodkumar Mob: 9323250900 / 9920087817
Mr. Sagar Nagare Mob: 9595750057

Email : dypbioinfo@gmail.com

Date Time Venue
07/05/2011 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Bioinformatics lab no:1
07/05/2011 02:30 pm to 04:30 pm Bioinformatics lab no:1 (Repeat)
14/05/2011 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Bioinformatics lab no:1 (Repeat)
19/05/2011 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Bioinformatics lab no:1 (Repeat)

Address: Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Padmashree Dr. D.Y. Patil University, Plot No: 50, Sector 15, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai - 400614, India.
by Bradford at 04-18-2011, 12:51 AM
Is it possible. To add mass to living organisms by attaching new genes to them? Mutation? Maybe? Or maybe hybrids. Hybrids? I am by no means a bio guy. So my knowledge is pretty elementary. I was just wondering if it was possible to have like a 100 or 200 pound scorpion as a result. Wouldn't that be terrifying? They'd be a tough creature to squash. If it's even possible.

Even if it was a process that couldn't possibly be done in one lifetime. Is it possible?
by angelllee0113 at 04-14-2011, 02:09 PM
If you were given to choose either drug discovery or write all (mechanism, synthesis,storage, release, actions etc.) about neurotransmitters, you will choose which to write in final exam?
by jwhite89 at 04-13-2011, 01:03 PM
I recently was admitted to Johns Hopkins University MS Biotech program and I wanted to know in what field would I make more money choosing between regulatory affairs which deals with food and drug law and the FDA, and their biotech enterprise concentration which seems to deal more with commercializing and financial management of biotech companies. Any help would be great and please no responses telling me to "forget the money and do the one you like best".
by angelllee0113 at 03-29-2011, 12:59 PM
Does anyone have any advice how to study Microbial Biotechnology?
How to get the concept?? They say its easy once u got the concept but I still feel very confused @@ thanks..

Expressed Sequence Tag:
Can anyone explain to me whats the purpose for EST? and the methods please??? I couldn't understand even after i read my notes... thanks a bunch !
by bloggergh at 03-14-2011, 12:03 AM
Hi,

We are running a one week collaborative "Idea Jam" for geneticists, biologists, chemists, biochemists, plant scientists, and other experts, to help develop the topic of Crop Yield, with a goal of helping world food supply.

There are prizes (up to $10k) being offered for the best ideas, and opportunity for networking and consulting work.

If you are interested, please register for the Jam here in the next couple of days:

http://www.ideaconnection.com/idea-jam/crop-yie...

Also, please pass this message on to your friends, colleagues, and other chemists, biologists, plant scientists and geneticists.
by fafy at 03-13-2011, 04:28 AM
hi everybody,
how can i determine the chemical structure of unknown antibiotic?
I have done FT IR, UV, H NMR, Mass spectroscopy and elemental analysis but, I can't figure the chemical structure for my compound.
Can any one help me?Huh

Thanks in advance
by NatashaKundi at 02-24-2011, 03:15 AM
[size=small]Over the past decades of the century, much attention has been given to use of chemicals in different industries. This is dictated by the logic of scientific and technological progress. The next stage of development in some important areas of the economy – bipolarization: the introduction of microbiological and biochemical processes for the intensification of production, especially agricultural.

These processes have emerged recently and are already firmly entrenched in the life of the new term biotechnology. In fact, this concept is not new, ancient productions, such as obtaining alcohol by fermentation, baking, wine making, and silage making are all related to biotechnology. In modern biotechnology - a multidisciplinary field of scientific and technological progress, includes microbiological synthesis, gene and cell engineering.

Microbial cell and its capability

The microbial cell is capable of in one day processing an enormous mass of nutrients 40 times greater than her own. The extraordinary rate of reproduction, the ability to synthesize large quantities of a variety of substances, and trigger biochemical processes that cannot carry out animal cells and higher plants - all of these microbial properties make them unequaled vendors of many valuable products, above all of the protein. Now, as already noted, the world's population receives little animal protein - only 40% of scientifically based standards. In the future due to rapid population growth, much more protein will be required (65 ... 70 million tons annually). The traditional methods of protein production will be insufficient. This is true even with the rapid development of unproductive land, breeding high-yielding varieties of plants, and highly productive breeds of animals.

The idea of a microbial protein, which within its amino acid composition, food quality would be nearer to the natural product, and even surpass it, was born about 30 years ago. Presented with two ways of obtaining protein: for human food and animal feeding, the second trend is already fully utilized. On special plants, using microorganisms receive feed protein and other products to eliminate the acute shortage of protein in the feed of farm animals. It was found that microbial protein is rich in essential amino acids (lysine, threonine, tryptophan, methionine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, and tyrosine). Small addition of these dramatically improve food.

Why microbial protein?

To obtain microbial protein industrially, does not depend on climate, or the season. It can be used in the Far North, and in equatorial countries. It is also important that bacteria, yeast, used in biotechnology, have a very high productivity.

Thus, the current fermenters, set at the factory, in one day provide a growing 28 - 30 tons of yeast biomass containing 11 - 13 thousand kg of digestible protein each. Hence, the yeast in a fermented form of the protein is not less than 100 thousand bulls. If, for example, a yearling calf could accumulate biomass as quickly as microorganisms, then one day he would have grown to such an extent that would not fit in a room of 20 m2.

High rate of microbial synthesis, and high quality of its products due to the fact that in recent years, production of feed yeast, fodder and veterinary drugs rose by more than 12 times, enzyme preparations in 58 times, the commercial production of lysine and other products.

Wide production of fodder yeast will reduce the deficit of protein in the diet of animal feed. The biomass of yeast is one of the most valuable biologically manufactured feed (about 50% of its dry matter is protein). It contains all the essential amino acids assimilating better than the protein concentrated feeds of vegetable origin. For example, feed yeast is 9 - 11 times greater than Lysine, 5 - 7 - methionine, 2 - 4 - tryptophan than in fodder grain (barley, oats). Yeasts are also a source of essential vitamins and trace elements, various enzymes and hormones. They improve metabolism and digestion of proteins and carbohydrates.
by aegraves at 02-21-2011, 04:04 PM
I'm currently a biotechnology student, and for my English class we have to do a paper about our intended major. For this paper we have to interview two professionals in our field. I have had no luck with anyone returning phone calls and emails and my paper is due tomorrow. If you would be willing to help I have questions ready to email. It would be a major help if you could. Send me an email at this_is_my_december@hotmail.com or agraves2@ivytech.edu THANK YOU SO MUCH
by DTU_student at 01-09-2011, 04:08 PM
TECHNOVISION’11 is the technical paper presentation event of TROIKA, the annual technical fest of IEEE student branch of Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering), Delhi organized in the month of February, 2011.

Over the years, Technovision has witnessed an exceptionally enthusiastic participation from students from across the country. Not just the students, but companies like Nokia, Schneider Electric and STMicroelectronics have been involved with it.

Papers are invited pertaining to the following streams of science and technology:
1. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2. Computer Science and Information Technology
3. Bio-Technology
4. Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology

A softcopy of the paper has to be sent at: technovision@dcetech.com and 3 hardcopies are to be sent at the postal address as mentioned in the Rulebook by 3rd Feb 2011. Rulebook can be downloaded from http://www.troika.dcetech.com

For further details contact:

Vipul Gupta vipul.gupta2012@gmail.com
Sakshi Arora sakshiarora1310@gmail.com
Twinkle Gupta tg2081990@gmail.com
by DTU_student at 01-09-2011, 04:08 PM
TECHNOVISION’11 is the technical paper presentation event of TROIKA, the annual technical fest of IEEE student branch of Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering), Delhi organized in the month of February, 2011.

Over the years, Technovision has witnessed an exceptionally enthusiastic participation from students from across the country. Not just the students, but companies like Nokia, Schneider Electric and STMicroelectronics have been involved with it.

Papers are invited pertaining to the following streams of science and technology:
1. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2. Computer Science and Information Technology
3. Bio-Technology
4. Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology

A softcopy of the paper has to be sent at: technovision@dcetech.com and 3 hardcopies are to be sent at the postal address as mentioned in the Rulebook by 3rd Feb 2011. Rulebook can be downloaded from http://www.troika.dcetech.com

For further details contact:

Vipul Gupta vipul.gupta2012@gmail.com
Sakshi Arora sakshiarora1310@gmail.com
Twinkle Gupta tg2081990@gmail.com
by SaeedGh at 11-16-2010, 12:42 AM
Hi,

I don't know who and why built this forum but it seems to be very useful for those who are looking for a friendly space to share their information about Biotechnology.

I think it's a good idea to add some extra forums such as "Site news" and "Talk to admins". If those forums had been made, I would told you that I couldn't upload any attachments or even an avatar! Wink
by makson at 11-03-2010, 05:33 AM
Hello,
I would like to show you new program, which I prepared by my own. It is called "biotranslator" and I hope that you will find it very useful. Its main task is to translate sequence of nitrogenous bases to sequence of amino acids in peptide, complementary DNA, RNA, or even performing Reverse Complement actions. This program is very easy to use and it can prosed with unprepared sequence (any format, can be separated with spacebars, enters or tabulators). The public beta (may have some bugs) is ready to download. You can use it till end of November. There are three versions:
Windows:
Code:
http://www.4shared.com/get/xpH9g6HB/biotranslator_kompil_windows_0.html
Linux:
Code:
http://www.4shared.com/get/8MfpvtwV/biotranslator_kompil_linux_092.html
Universal (require Python interpreter):
Code:
http://www.4shared.com/get/_czWmKo9/biotranslator_kompil_universal.html
All additional informations can be found in readmy.pdf file. Before November ends I will try to prepare another beta based on your feedback.
Best regards
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