A career in biotech?
I'm a GCSE student but I like planning ahead... I think I want to go into biotech since it gives a meaning to my career as I will help making peoples lives better... I'd say I'm quite strong in both...
View ArticleStem Cell Treatments to Relieve Symptoms in Down Syndrome
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by the abnormal presence of the entire or a part of an extra chromosome 21. The disorder is named after John Langdon Down, a British doctor who described...
View ArticleInfluence of The Heart Cells on Amniotic Stem Cells and Newest Scaffold Research
Amniotic fluid has a population of stem cells which have markers expressed characteristic for embryonic and mesenchymal stem cells. These amniotic fluid- derived stem cells can differentiate across all...
View ArticleMedicinal Power of Human Urine!
The title of the article itself must have caught a good deal of your attention! Most of you probably might have been getting a yuck! feeling imagining the consumption of Human Urine as a Medicine! But...
View ArticleNano-particles Provide Long-lasting Blood Glucose Control
Diabetes mellitus is a disorder in which the body is not able to properly process sugar. This normally results from insufficient insulin, a hormone that helps tell cells to take in sugar from the blood...
View ArticleAlchemic Microbes - Gold Producing Bacteria
The term Alchemy is conventionally associated with matter transformation (especially base metals into Gold!). And, when microbes start doing the job of transforming base metals into Gold, it won't be...
View ArticleUsing Math to Help the Immune System Fight Cancer
T cells and B cells, the white blood cells of the adaptive immune system that help fight infectious agents and cancerous cells, have an amazing repertoire of proteins they can make. There are hundreds...
View ArticleDirect Transformation of Adult Stem Cells to Neural Progenitors
The use of stem cells for treating injuries and disease has many potential complications. Stem cells, whether embryonic, adult, or induced, could potentially turn into any cell in the body. If this...
View ArticleCure For Epilepsy Discovered in Mouse Model
Epilepsy is a group of disorders in which an individual suffers from seizures. The seizures can be mild to severe, and a variety of factors can induce the seizure in the individual. Often times, the...
View ArticleSmall Molecule Treatment for Muscular Dystrophy
Myotonic dystrophy is the most common form of muscular dystrophy. It is a chronic, slowly progressing disease that results in muscle wasting, heart defects, and endocrine problems. Myotonic dystrophy...
View ArticleLowering Costs for Genome Assembly
The time requirement and cost of sequencing genomes has decreased exponentially in recent years. The human genome project, in which the entire human genome was sequenced, took 13 years and three...
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Evolution of Microscopy
The field of Biology owes a lot to Microscopes. It was the invention of this very instrument, which widened the horizons of Life Sciences. From the physical world of plants and animals, the focus was...
View ArticleStem Cell Niche
Stem cells with tumor cells are the only cells in human body that are able to proliferate and differentiate indefinitely. Self renewal is the key process in human organism because it has great...
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Status of Biotechnology in South Africa
South Africa is one of the African countries that have embraced biotechnology. In the continent of Africa, the Republic of South Africa is the most southern one. Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia,...
View ArticleEmerging Era of Bio-Nano-Robots
THE TRIGGER In 2005, researchers from the Rice University came up with an extra-ordinary research. It was about a successful test of a "Four Wheeled" molecule, driven on a nano-scale gold surface, what...
View ArticleQuorum sensing in Bioreactor Operation(s)
Introduction: In most simple terms, Quorum Sensing refers to change in gene-expression in response to change in the cell density/cell population. It's exhibited only by those bacteria, which have the...
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The Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
The term green revolution refers to all the technological developments that happened in the field of agriculture in the 1960s. This revolution started during the neo-colonial era when agriculture was...
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Basics and Developments in Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs)
Microbial Fuel Cells or in technical words, Bio-electrochemical cells, are the bio-technical analogs of conventional Electrochemical cells. Where as an electrochemical cell converts the energy derived...
View ArticleCamouflaged Nano-Soldiers Battling Micro-Enemies
Despite the discovery of new antibiotics, bacteria are becoming more and more antibiotic resistant. Most pathogenic strains have developed multi drug resistant mechanisms, making them increasingly...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Biotechnology - Production of Proteins and Biopharming
The use of biotechnology in both medicine and pharmaceutical industries is the most influential developments in the world of technology in this 21st century. In the effort to comprehend biology, to...
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