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 in the sector and strengthen the supportive ecosystem for innovation, incubation, investment, income & impact to build enterprises. Association of Biotechnology …
food insecurity and chronic poverty could be easily overcome if poor countries are able to improve agricultural productivity. But they do not have access to the necessary tools, especially biotechnology. In its latest report, us-based research institute Resources for the Future accuses the us's patent policy of restricting the use …
The ongoing attempts to strengthen intellectual property protection regimes through the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (trips) agreement, are choking knowledge transfers from the industrialised world to developing countries. And with private companies seeking control and monopoly over genes and cell lines, the world is fast moving towards scientific apartheid against …
In the beginning of November 2003, the us Food and Drug Administration (fda) released the findings of its risk assessment study on whether the meat and milk from cloned animals and their progeny was as safe to eat as conventionally bred livestock. It was "likely to be as safe', the …
transparency in the regulatory system that governs agro-biotechnology in India, learning from the experience of industrialised countries and setting specific domestic priorities. These were some of the suggestions made by civil society groups during their November 18 consultations with the Union ministry of agriculture's task force. The body has been …
The term genetically modified (GM) is highly controversial. While the science of transferring desirable genetic traits from one organism to another has applications in several fields
fifty years ago, on February 28, 1953, two young men walked into the Eagle, a dingy pub in Cambridge, and announced that they had discovered the secret of life. James D Watson and Francis Crick had found that the dna was the key to evolution. Like many others, Crick's wife, …
In an era of a rapidly shrinking biological resources, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a historic landmark, being the first global agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. The CBD is one of the few international agreements in the area of natural resource conservation in …
Scientists have come up with a home-grown genetically modified (gm) potato. This ubiquitous vegetable has now been fortified with proteins derived from an amaranth (Amaranthus) species through genetic modification. Amaranth is also an edible plant. While gm cotton and mustard did not quite get a warm welcome in India, the …
President and chief executive of Monsanto Co Hendrik Verfaillie resigned following a series of losses. Monsanto is one of the biggest agriculture and biotechnology companies in the world. Verfaillie, who has held the post for only two years, helped pioneer the company's role in the introduction of genetically modified crops …
Breakthroughs in biotechnology may finally resolve the quest for the elusive blue rose, which alas does not exist because the flower lacks the required pigment genes. At us-based Vanderbilt University's school of medicine, scientists studying how drugs metabolise in the liver, stumbled across a human enzyme that may hold the …
Prodigene Inc, a Texas-based biotechnology company, is at the centre of a row after its soyabean produce was found to be contaminated with genetically engineered corn grown earlier in the same field. The us government has ordered the company to destroy 500,000 bushels of soyabean, estimated to be worth millions …
In clearing the tenth five-year plan recently, the Union cabinet gave the green light to a programme that seeks to metamorphose the leather industry into an environment-friendly sector. While the tanning process will no longer cause pollution, leather itself would become a comple tely biodegradable product if this plan is …
MEASURE 27 ON GM FOOD LABELLING . Oregon . November 2002 The big food producers and biotechnology researchers are celebrating. Their strategy has paid off. The voters of US's Oregon state rejected a ballot initiative that would have required labels on food containing genetically modified (GM) material. More than 73 …
for those rallying against the entry of genetically modified (gm) mustard in India, there is good news. At least for the time being. After mulling over the issue of granting permission for cultivation of transgenic mustard in India for long, the Union government has now decided to postpone the approval. …
this year, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm that decides the winners of Nobel prize, showed an admirable grasp of reality. The Nobel prize for physiology or medicine went to Sydney Brenner from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California, John Sulston from the Sanger Centre at Cambridge University and …
The uk has finally stood up to the arm-twisting it has been subjected to at the hands of us biotechnology corporations. Top government functionaries of the country publicly voiced their resentment at being coerced into carrying out trials of genetically modified (gm) crops. The outburst came hard on the heels …
the polarised and often bitter global debate over genetically modified (gm) food, sparked off by last month's refusal by some nations in southern Africa to accept international donations of gm maize, even cast its shadow on the World Summit on Sustainable Development at Johannesburg. Though the countries, notably Zimbabwe, eventually …
Distinctly different from the biotechnology policies of other nations, Nepal's newly drafted policy focuses on poverty alleviation. The policy would aim to enhance the quality of life of the Nepalese people in terms of agriculture, forestry, health and environment.
