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 …
The vast economic potential of biotechnology in India has created some interesting alliances. At the Indian Science Congress held recently in New Delhi, the Confederation of Indian Industry (cii), the Union government's department of biotechnology (dbt), and a delegation of lawyers from the us joined hands to convince the public …
In October 1999, Monsanto Corporation announced that it has suspended sales of Terminator seeds. Terminator technology makes seeds sterile so farmers cannot save seeds from one harvest for planting in the next harvest. Thus, farmers have to buy new seeds from the company every year. The purpose was to make …
on a radio programme aired on a popular international station, representatives of the plant biotechnology industry likened the fear for genetically modified organisms (gmos) to the initial fear of vaccinations. Both, they claimed, are equally unfounded and come in the way of benefits to humankind. Just as vaccinations put an …
"In the virtual world, we virtually promise everything but deliver virtually nothing." this caption from one of the cartoons exhibited at the Indian Science Congress 2001 sums up the outcome of the massive jamboree, held in Delhi from January 3 to 7. The prime minister promised food for all, the …
"Children in India remain malnourished while foodgrains rot in our granaries. The key to this is proper management of our granaries.' V Ramalingaswami National Research Professor "There's a big gap between scientific research and application. We have crude facts of science, locked up in laboratories and research institutes, but we …
The session raised a whole range of problems. When it came to discussing solutions, time ran out. Peter Raven of the Missouri Botanical Garden in the us made some relevant observa-tions: "Food security has increased, but many people in the world still go hungry.' He said extinction rate of species …
the biotech industry in the us is receiving brickbats from all directions. Some key grain processors, such as A E Staley Manufacturing, which is the us corn processing unit of British commodity firm Tate & Lyle Public Limited Corporation, are discouraging farmers from growing genetically modified ( gm ) crops. …
the Union government is considering banning import of edible oils made from genetically modified (GM) soyabean and other seeds, said Union agriculture minister Nitish Kumar. He said that this measure will help in curbing dumping by some countries, which has adversely affected the Indian farmers. These countries resort to dumping …
A TEAM of American scientist have decoded the genetic sequence of the bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. The sequence of El Tor, a destructive type of cholera bacterium, was deciphered by John Hedelberg of the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, Rita Colwell of University of Maryland in Baltimore and John …
the German government is trying to suspend commercial cultivation of genetically modified (gm) crops. It has started negotiating a temporary suspension with the country's biotech industry, which has shown readiness to co-operate. The time period would be used for extensive research into environmental consequences of growing gm crops. A deal …
At a recent session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (csd), scientists, non-governmental organisations (ngo), farmers and industrialists discussed various farming methods that can maximise agricultural production. The session was held at the un headquarters in New York. Scientists and ngo groups presented data in front of government …
the trouble with biotechnology is not that it is irretrievably sinister, but that its controllers have one ruthless and overriding motive in mind - profit. Existing global intellectual property rights (ipr) rules may as well have been ghost written by biotechnology and pharmaceutical mncs. And now, another diplomatic victory was …
Over the years, the use of bio-technology ( bt ) has emerged as a useful means to control crop pests. Because bt produced toxins against the insects, it represents a potential transgenic solution for pest control. The Chinese have put in a lot of effort to develop a virus-resistant variety …
a strain of genetically modified (gm) rice has been created by scientists to combat Vitamin A deficiency, the main cause of blindness that effects as many as 250 million children the world over. Swiss biotechnologist Ingo Potrykus, who led the Vitamin A research, said his team was also completing work …
the genetic material in our cells is a wonder of nature. By using a few building blocks, nature has been able to encode a vast amount of information in our DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) about us. Now a team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin have used DNA as a …
When the leaders of two of the most powerful free-market economies take a stance that upholds public good over private profit, it is good news for humankind. The Human Genome Project ( hgp ), aimed at 'mapping' the entire human genetic pool, is at the heart of one of the …
the disparity between the degree of investment in biotechnology research and the results was the focus of experts at a three-day exhibition and conference organised by the ministries of science & technology and agriculture, un -Asia Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology with other collaborating agencies in New Delhi recently. …
the first uk patent for cloning has been won by the us B iotechnology company Geron Corp. The company has bought the Scottish research institute that cloned Dolly the sheep. Geron bio-med, the company set up to exploit the cloning technology, is a British subsidiary of Geron based inside the …
