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Thread: Risk Assessment Of Biotechnological Activities And Its Corresponding Products
Post: Risk Assessment Of Biotechnological Activities And...
Since time unknown, man has been involved in exploiting the nature around him for the benefit of his own. With the advent of biotechnology the tendency has increased and attained the thresh hold level...
Author: ashwathi
11-19-2012, 10:28 PM
Thread: Biotechnological Applications In Disease Treatment
Post: Biotechnological Applications In Disease Treatment
A wide variety of compounds obtained from organisms is used in treatment of diseases. These compounds may be obtained from recombinant and non recombinant organisms. A large number of products from n...
Author: ashwathi
11-19-2012, 10:08 PM
Thread: Somatic Embryogenesis and Artificial Seeds
Post: Somatic Embryogenesis and Artificial Seeds
An embryo derived from a somatic cell of a plant rather than the zygote is known as somatic embryo. The process of production of somatic embryo is known as somatic embryogenesis. Micro propagation ref...
Author: ashwathi
11-19-2012, 12:14 PM
Thread: Gene Therapy And Cancer Treatment
Post: Gene Therapy And Cancer Treatment
Altering the genes as a treatment against a disease is known as gene therapy. A variety of diseases has been known to be caused as a result of defective genes in humans such as Parkinson’s disease, cy...
Author: ashwathi
11-19-2012, 10:36 AM
Thread: Markers Involved in Creating Genome Maps
Post: Markers Involved in Creating Genome Maps
The whole genetic constitution of an organism is known as genome of an organism. A detailed description of positional, structural and functional properties of the entire genome is known as genome maps...
Author: ashwathi
11-16-2012, 10:31 PM
Thread: Biological agents as fuels: Bio fuels
Post: Biological agents as fuels: Bio fuels
Fuels obtained from biological sources are known as bio fuels. The branch of biotechnology dealing with the exploitation of biological agents to convert it into sources of energy is known as fuel bio...
Author: ashwathi
11-16-2012, 07:53 PM
Thread: Biotechnological Methods Of Disease Diagnosis
Post: Biotechnological Methods Of Disease Diagnosis
Disease diagnosis refers to identification of the cause of the disease. Conventional methods include microscopy, culture of specimen and testing for sensitiveness, several immunological assays etc. Bu...
Author: ashwathi
11-16-2012, 07:24 PM
Thread: Detection of Transgenic Animals
Post: Detection of Transgenic Animals
Transgenic Animals Detection: In recombinant DNA technology after the gene of interest has been isolated and transferred efficiently, the next major step is to ensure its proper and maximum expressi...
Author: ashwathi
Forum: Cloning
11-16-2012, 05:25 PM
Thread: Somatic Hybridisation for the Production of Hybrid Plants
Post: Somatic Hybridisation for the Production of Hybrid...
The process by which protoplasts of two different plant species fuse together to form hybrids is known as somatic hybridisation and the hybrids so produced is known as somatic hybrids. The technique o...
Author: ashwathi
11-15-2012, 09:16 PM
Thread: Endogenous Gene Expression in Plants
Post: Endogenous Gene Expression in Plants
In plants, certain genes are responsible for certain characters. Plants processes are often modified so that they can be made of use commercially. In these cases, it is often seen that upon eliminatin...
Author: ashwathi
11-12-2012, 11:59 PM
Thread: DNA Profiling in Forensic Science and its Advantages
Post: DNA Profiling in Forensic Science and its Advantag...
Application of knowledge of DNA based information for resolving crimes and knowing the identity of criminals is known as forensic science. DNA fingerprinting is a highly accurate and sensitive mode of...
Author: ashwathi
11-10-2012, 03:04 AM
Thread: Germplasm Conservation in Plants
Post: Germplasm Conservation in Plants
The whole set of genetic material of a species of plant is known as germplasm of the organism .It is based on the knowledge of germplasm that various breeding techniques of plants are developed. Henc...
Author: ashwathi
11-08-2012, 08:11 PM
Thread: Xenobiotic Compounds and their Biodegradation
Post: Xenobiotic Compounds and their Biodegradation
Man made chemicals present in the nature at high concentrations polluting the environment is known as Xenobiotic compounds. These compounds are not commonly produced by nature. Some microbes have been...
Author: ashwathi
11-06-2012, 10:37 PM
Thread: What is Functional Genomics?
Post: What is Functional Genomics?
Whole set of genetic material or genes present in an organism are called as the genome of the organism. Study involving genome of an organism or different genomes of different organisms is termed as g...
Author: ashwathi
11-05-2012, 12:41 PM
Thread: Contribution of Genetic Engineering in Improving Plant Properties
Post: Contribution of Genetic Engineering in Improving P...
The techniques of gene transfer have reflected many successful examples in variety of fields. Some of the examples in the field of agricultural biotechnology are: Resistance to herbicides: It is imp...
Author: ashwathi
11-02-2012, 10:49 PM
Thread: Phytoremediation Applying Biotechnological Methods
Post: Phytoremediation Applying Biotechnological Methods
The technique of utilization of biological agents for degradation of pollutants is known as bioremediation. Phytoremediation is a branch of bioremediation wherein plants are employed for the purpose o...
Author: ashwathi
11-01-2012, 01:57 PM
Thread: Altering Enzymes For Better Performance-Enzyme Engineering
Post: Altering Enzymes For Better Performance-Enzyme Eng...
Enzymes are biocatalysts which are mainly biological molecules which have the ability to influence a reaction. Enzyme engineering deals with enhancement of enzyme activity of existing enzyme or induc...
Author: ashwathi
10-31-2012, 06:10 PM
Thread: Biosensors: Mechanism And Applications
Post: Biosensors: Mechanism And Applications
A biosensor is a device for the detection of an analyte that combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector component. An analytical device which functions to analyse a sample for th...
Author: ashwathi
10-30-2012, 04:27 PM
Thread: Plastic From Nature-Bioplastic
Post: Plastic From Nature-Bioplastic
Bioplastics are a kind of plastic, produced from natural compounds, and can be degraded into their base compounds. It is also known as Biodegradable plastics. Genetic variations in plants have been ...
Author: ashwathi
10-29-2012, 03:15 PM
Thread: Drug Designing to Produce Designer Drugs
Post: Drug Designing to Produce Designer Drugs
Drug designing is a process of constructing ailments specific drugs adopting the known properties of diseases applying different technologies. Small organic molecules which bind and modulate the prop...
Author: ashwathi
10-28-2012, 06:49 PM
Thread: Artificial Haemoglobin - Blood Substitute for Substituting Blood
Post: Artificial Haemoglobin - Blood Substitute for Subs...
Human haemoglobin is available in abundance. It is also one of the most sought after protein available. Haemoglobin has been studied so extensively that all the properties and expression mechanisms is...
Author: ashwathi
10-27-2012, 04:22 PM
Thread: Vaccines by Recombinant DNA Technology
Post: Vaccines by Recombinant DNA Technology
A biological preparation, which evokes an immune response when administered into the body, is termed as vaccines. This usually consists of parts of pathogen in its weakened state or its products. This...
Author: ashwathi
10-26-2012, 03:33 PM
Thread: DNA Microarrays: DNA on a Chip
Post: DNA Microarrays: DNA on a Chip
DNA Microarrays consist of a number of DNA spots which are attached to solid substrates like glass, silicone, nylon membranes. After a gene has been isolated, the next step involved is to study the d...
Author: ashwathi
10-25-2012, 06:05 PM
Thread: A Study on Culture and Production of Artificial Skin
Post: A Study on Culture and Production of Artificial Sk...
Advances in the field of biotechnology, research and medicine has made it possible to produce artificial skin in vitro. A culture refers to culturing of any kind of cells or growth of cells on a sui...
Author: ashwathi
10-24-2012, 04:06 PM
Thread: Role of Type 2 Restriction Endonucleases in Gene Cloning
Post: Role of Type 2 Restriction Endonucleases in Gene C...
Gene cloning involves application of many enzymes having specific functions to result in a modified product. Of the different enzymes involved, endonucleases are a type of enzymes which have the abili...
Author: ashwathi
Forum: Cloning
10-23-2012, 05:13 PM