Introduction on Drug Repositioning (with examples)
Drug market is huge. There’s already ~95 000 publically available drugs. Drug development process is long (10-15 years) and it is expensive. A lot of potential candidates are eliminated in the...
View ArticleConnectomics - Study of Neuronal Connections in Brain and Nervous System
Brain is the central organ in the nervous system of all animals except few invertebrates. Everything we do is under brain's control and that’s the reason why scientists are so eager to "decode" it....
View ArticleCouple of ways to improve vaccines…
Vaccines are providing resistance against certain infectious agents by stimulating adaptive immune response. Idea that immunity could be boosted using attenuated or dead viruses is very old. First...
View ArticleEndogenous 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 eliminating...
View ArticleGenetically modified pigs - Production and Application for medicine and...
The use of swine in biomedical research has gained much importance as they have always been considered excellent models for the studies related to atherosclerosis, various cardiovascular diseases,...
View ArticleSomatic Hybridisation for the Production of Hybrid Plants
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 of...
View ArticleDetection 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 expression...
View ArticleOrgans Participating in Developing Immunity
Like an army has group of several battalions, the defensive mechanism of the body called as the immune system is composed of several organs, each performing a significant role contributing to the...
View ArticleBiotechnological 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. But...
View ArticleBiological 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...
View ArticleMarkers 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....
View ArticleApplication of recombinant interferons in medical field
Cytokines belong to the group of proteins, which are usually regulatory in nature and maybe glycoprotein in some cases, produced by the body in minute amounts. Their main role can be seen in cell...
View ArticleApplication of Nanorobotics-The future of molecular nanotechnology
Much advance has been made in the field of nanotechnology and nanomedicine, which has initiated the study of the use of robots in the nanometer scale known as nanorobots. The technology of nanorobots...
View ArticleEffect of Nanomaterials in the environment
Nanomaterials (NMs) have been defined as particles having one dimension less than 100nm. Among them, the materials with atleast two dimensions between 1 and 100 nm are known as nanoparticles (NPs). In...
View ArticleGene 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,...
View ArticleSomatic 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...
View ArticleOxygen Gas Plants
We offers Industrial and Medical Oxygen Gas Plant, medium oxygen plant, cylinder filling oxygen plant, oxygen manufacturing plants, Oxygen Generator Plant, plant of oxygen gas, oxygen and nitrogen...
View ArticleBiotechnological 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 non...
View ArticleRisk Assessment Of Biotechnological Activities And Its Corresponding Products
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....
View Articlechromosome number of sepal leaves
Hey everyone, Is it possible for sepal leaves to get chromosome number n, or are they always 2n?
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