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Thread: The Jumping Genes and their Applications
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Jumping genes also called as transposable elements are the sequences of DNA that shift from one location to another in the genome. These transposable elements were first discovered by Barbara McClinto...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Genetic Engineering
10-08-2013, 01:07 PM
Thread: Genetic Manipulation for Pest Resistance
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Humans have explored for crop plants that are able to survive and reproduce in spite of harmful pests, for centuries. Nowadays, with the aid of novel genetic engineering techniques, genes for pest res...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Genetic Engineering
10-07-2013, 05:08 PM
Thread: Transgenic animals: how they are created and what's their purpose
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The transgenesis of animals began in 1980. Animal transgenesis applications that are directly or indirectly related to health of human beings can be majorly divided into three categories: improving th...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Genetic Engineering
10-07-2013, 06:48 AM
Thread: Understanding Flow Cytometry in a Simple Way!
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During the past ten decades the utilization of flow cytometry in the clinical labs has increased substantially. This is due to the development of less expensive, user friendly smaller instruments and...
Author: adimed
10-05-2013, 02:05 PM
Thread: Role of Environmental factors in Gene Expression
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In an organism gene expression can be environmental influenced, which includes the organism’s external world where it dwells or develops, in addition to its internal world which involves the factors s...
Author: adimed
10-05-2013, 01:03 PM
Thread: Artificial Cells Applications and their Future
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The primitive regular clinical utilization of artificial cells was in the form of coated and activated charcoal to perform hemoperfusion (a medical procedure that was carried out in order to remove th...
Author: adimed
10-04-2013, 02:32 PM
Thread: How can Gene Therapy help in treatment of Cancer?
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The changes in the genes results in cancer. The gene therapy treatment is designed to alter the cancer cells at molecular level and replace bad or missing gene with healthy one. The novel gene is deli...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Gene and Cell therapy
10-03-2013, 04:15 PM
Thread: Biotechnological Applications In Disease Treatment
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Red biotechnology is the term used to describe the biotechnological applications in the area of medicine. It can be majorly divided into pharmacogenomics, gene therapy, biopharmaceuticals and genetic ...
Author: adimed
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Gene and Cell therapy
10-03-2013, 03:01 PM
Thread: Application and Importance of Biotechnology
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Biotechnology is an area of science that is concerned with the industrialized production of biopharmaceuticals and biological utilization of genetically modified microbes. And also the genetic consti...
Author: adimed
10-02-2013, 12:31 PM
Thread: Vaccines by Recombinant DNA Technology
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All recombinant vaccines fall into three fundamental classes namely, live genetically modified, recombinant inactivated, and genetic vaccines.
Live genetically modified vaccines can be bacteria or vi...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Biotechnology Products
10-01-2013, 12:20 PM
Thread: Cryobiology and its Applications in Healthcare Industry
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Since the year 1663 when a scientist named Henry Power reported the survival of vinegar eels that were frozen by exposure to a keen frost, cryobiologists have been engaged in probing the low temperatu...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Environmental Biotechnology
10-01-2013, 06:26 AM
Thread: Use of Algae through different approaches
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Marine algae are ecologically significant as primary producers and have been utilized economically as medicines and food for generations. Nowadays, numerous species of marine algae supply not only foo...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Environmental Biotechnology
09-27-2013, 02:28 PM
Thread: Identity to Organisms: DNA Sequencing
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The pyrosequencing or 454 sequencing, in its commercial version can read up to twenty million bases per run by implementing the technique on picotiter plates that promotes sequencing of huge amounts o...
Author: adimed
09-25-2013, 01:44 PM
Thread: Commercial Use of the Plants Improved by Genetic Engineering
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The main intention of the plant breeders is to develop plant varieties with excellent agronomic quality. In conventional method of plant breeding there are fewer chances of obtaining the desired gene ...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Genetic Engineering
09-23-2013, 12:11 PM
Thread: Various Factors contributing to Bacterial Classification
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The bacterial classification serves a diversity of functions. Due to this diversity, bacteria may be classified based on many different typing methods. The significant characteristic of all these clas...
Author: adimed
09-20-2013, 01:25 PM
Thread: Genes associated with cancer pathogenesis
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Abnormal growth of the cells results in cancer.
The cancer cells proliferate swiftly regardless of the restriction with nutrients, space and are unresponsive to the body’s stop signal. The shapes of...
Author: adimed
09-18-2013, 01:48 PM
Thread: Understanding Proteins and Protein Related Disorders
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The word metabolism refers to all the biochemical reactions and pathways that take place inside the living organism. The enzymes play a critical role in a lot of metabolic processes and any alteration...
Author: adimed
09-16-2013, 01:58 PM
Thread: Plastic From Nature-Bioplastic
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Bioplastics or the biobased plastic means that the substance or product is either completely or partly derived from the biomass. Biomass utilized for bioplastics comes from plant source for example su...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Biotechnology Products
09-15-2013, 05:52 AM
Thread: An Introduction on Chemical Carcinogens
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The knowledge about the association of chemicals to carcinogenesis has progressed radically ever since the early observations of Pott and Hill in the 1700’s. The observation by John Hill that people u...
Author: adimed
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Environmental Biotechnology
09-13-2013, 11:04 AM
Thread: Transformation, Transduction and Transfection –Gene transfer methods
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Gene transfer is a technique to stably and efficiently introduce functional genes (that are usually cloned) into the target cells. Genes are the fundamental hereditary units of all the life forms. The...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Cloning
09-12-2013, 12:49 PM
Thread: Ancient DNA could tell a lot of different stories
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Analysis of ancient DNA (aDNA) has various useful applications.
Ancient DNA analyses of the remains that are paleontological, historical and archaeological can contribute significant information for ...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Environmental Biotechnology
09-10-2013, 01:12 PM
Thread: Ancient DNA could tell a lot of different stories
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The initial study of ancient DNA (aDNA) dates back to the year 1984 when a scientist named Russ Higuchi and his colleagues separately described DNA sequences from a type of zebra (quagga) and an ancie...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Environmental Biotechnology
09-07-2013, 11:24 AM
Thread: Synthesis of Recombinant DNA, Its function and Importance
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The recombinant DNA technology (rDNA) is utilized mainly for two types of cloning namely reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Reproductive cloning will create a life form with the same genetic inform...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Gene and Cell therapy
09-05-2013, 02:07 PM
Thread: Synthesis of Recombinant DNA, Its function and Importance
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The recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology initially appeared during the 1960- 1970s, even though the fundamental principle of recombination was revealed much earlier. In fact, in the year 1928, an English...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Gene and Cell therapy
09-05-2013, 01:52 PM
Thread: Why Escherichia Coli an important tool in Biotech Industries
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The bacterium E. coli is popularly called as the pet of the scientists.
The current significance on the variety of global energy sources, while minimizing the fossil fuel consumption, has sited new i...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Genetic Engineering
09-04-2013, 12:45 PM
Thread: Microbial contributions to Molecular Biology: Enzymes, plasmids, cosmids
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Enzymes are essential for almost all of the chemical reactions in a living organism. There are many enzymes that originate from microorganisms that are utilized in molecular biology. Currently enzyme...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Genetic Engineering
09-04-2013, 12:41 PM
Thread: A Journey Through A Cell
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Cells are called as the fundamental component of life. The development of Cell Theory is credited to three scientists namely Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden and Rudolph Virchow. According to cell ...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Genetic Engineering
09-03-2013, 07:14 AM
Thread: Alternative modes of Inheritance: Cytoplasmic, Maternal and Extra nuclear Inheritance
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Non- Mendelian inheritance such as extra nuclear inheritance or cytoplasmic inheritance was first discovered in 1908 by Carl Correns with the plant called Mirabilis Jalapa. Later research revealed tha...
Author: adimed
Forum:
Gene and Cell therapy
09-02-2013, 07:06 AM
Thread: Role of Adjuvants in Immunology
Post: Role of Adjuvants in Immunology
Post: Role of Adjuvants in Immunology
Substances that are capable of enhancing the response of the immune system to the antigen are termed as Adjuvants. They can also be substances that enhance the effect of a drug on the body. The histor...
Author: adimed
09-01-2013, 11:40 AM