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Recombinant Microbes

Posted by on May 8, 2010 in BIOTECHNOLOGY | 0 comments

To date, the use of recombinant microbes in food production and processing has been limited to recombinant microbial enzymes and a...

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Transgenic Plants

Posted by on May 7, 2010 in BIOTECHNOLOGY | 0 comments

Breeding is still an effective mechanism for improvement and is frequently used to increase such traits as yield and disease resistance, as...

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Gene Cloning

Posted by on May 6, 2010 in BIOTECHNOLOGY | 0 comments

The major breakthrough in the development of recombinant DNA technology was the ability to clone genes. This refers to the process of...

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‘Golden rice’ and its future

Posted by on May 5, 2010 in BIOTECHNOLOGY | 0 comments

Soon after the ‘Starlink’ scandal, Swiss biotechnologists announced the development of ‘golden rice’, a variety of rice that has...

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Gene Therapy

Posted by on May 4, 2010 in BIOTECHNOLOGY | 0 comments

In 1990, researchers first attempted to combat genetic defects by the transfer of human genes. When a hereditary disorder is the result of...

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