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Biotechnology
Biotechnology: is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2). Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biomanufacturing, molecular engineering, etc.
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OCT 11, 2022Genetics & Genomics
Every mammal that is found on our planet is descended from one common ancestor, thought to have lived around 180 million ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 09, 2022Immunology
Scientists have developed a gel that can relieve multiple symptoms of gum disease, and brings better health to the oral ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 09, 2022Genetics & Genomics
Down syndrome is the most common genetic type of intellectual disability. It occurs when a person carries an extra copy ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 07, 2022Drug Discovery & Development
As cancer drugs are developed, one important process the drug goes through is testing in experimental animals. The use o ...Written By: J. Bryce OrtizOCT 03, 2022Microbiology
Microbial growth is everywhere. So can we use it to our benefit? Using the Caulobacter crescentus bacterium, researchers ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 30, 2022Health & Medicine
Glyphosate is the chemical in a product called Roundup that kills weeds, especially grasses and broadleaf weeds that com ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 29, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
The lysosome is a small membrane bound organelle that can be found in most animal cells. It was once thought that these ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 29, 2022Immunology
The immune system has to be able to differentiate between the organisms in our microbiome, which can be helpful and even ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 28, 2022Microbiology
We each carry thousands of different species of microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tracts, and that gut microbiome h ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 28, 2022Genetics & Genomics
The mitochondrion, commonly called the powerhouse of the cell, might be one of the best known organelles. This special o ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 25, 2022Microbiology
New research has suggested that bacteria that live in the human mouth could work as model organisms that can help us fin ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 25, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
In cells, active genes are transcribed into mRNA molecules, which can be edited and processed in a variety of ways, to u ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 23, 2022Microbiology
Symbiotic relationships enable organisms to use one another, usually to the advantage of both. Legumes can live in symbi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 18, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
It is extremely challenging to study human development. There are animal models that can tell us how general aspects of ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 18, 2022Immunology
When we get a bacterial infection in our skin, our immune system responds. It's been thought that inflammatory cells ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 15, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
In recent years, a mountain of evidence has revealed the significance of the human gut microbiome, a community of bacter ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 12, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have caught a virus in the act of infecting a cell, and captured images of the action in real-time and three ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2022Microbiology
Vinblastine and vincristine are both common chemotherapies that are used to treat several types of cancer. The drugs sto ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 09, 2022Immunology
The human immune system must respond to a diverse array of infectious agents and harmful invaders throughout our lifetim ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 07, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
When genes in a cell are active, they are transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules. So researchers can take a sna ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 07, 2022Drug Discovery & Development
Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires constant monitoring. Patients have to check the level of sugar, or glucose i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 05, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
An image by Wang Qiang shows a mouse that carries two chromosomes fused together, the first engineered karyotype in mice ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 01, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
The CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has revolutionized biomedical research, and has now even been used in the clinic is ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 30, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
While most of us are born with 2 sex chromosomes in either a combination of XX or XY, there are many cases of people who ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
OCT 11, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Every mammal that is found on our planet is descended from one common ancestor, thought to have lived around 180 million
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 09, 2022
Immunology
Scientists have developed a gel that can relieve multiple symptoms of gum disease, and brings better health to the oral
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 09, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Down syndrome is the most common genetic type of intellectual disability. It occurs when a person carries an extra copy
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 07, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
As cancer drugs are developed, one important process the drug goes through is testing in experimental animals. The use o
...
Written By:
J. Bryce Ortiz
OCT 03, 2022
Microbiology
Microbial growth is everywhere. So can we use it to our benefit? Using the Caulobacter crescentus bacterium, researchers
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2022
Health & Medicine
Glyphosate is the chemical in a product called Roundup that kills weeds, especially grasses and broadleaf weeds that com
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 29, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
The lysosome is a small membrane bound organelle that can be found in most animal cells. It was once thought that these
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 29, 2022
Immunology
The immune system has to be able to differentiate between the organisms in our microbiome, which can be helpful and even
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 28, 2022
Microbiology
We each carry thousands of different species of microorganisms in our gastrointestinal tracts, and that gut microbiome h
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 28, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
The mitochondrion, commonly called the powerhouse of the cell, might be one of the best known organelles. This special o
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 25, 2022
Microbiology
New research has suggested that bacteria that live in the human mouth could work as model organisms that can help us fin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 25, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
In cells, active genes are transcribed into mRNA molecules, which can be edited and processed in a variety of ways, to u
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 23, 2022
Microbiology
Symbiotic relationships enable organisms to use one another, usually to the advantage of both. Legumes can live in symbi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 18, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
It is extremely challenging to study human development. There are animal models that can tell us how general aspects of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 18, 2022
Immunology
When we get a bacterial infection in our skin, our immune system responds. It's been thought that inflammatory cells
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 15, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
In recent years, a mountain of evidence has revealed the significance of the human gut microbiome, a community of bacter
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 12, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have caught a virus in the act of infecting a cell, and captured images of the action in real-time and three
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2022
Microbiology
Vinblastine and vincristine are both common chemotherapies that are used to treat several types of cancer. The drugs sto
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 09, 2022
Immunology
The human immune system must respond to a diverse array of infectious agents and harmful invaders throughout our lifetim
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 07, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
When genes in a cell are active, they are transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules. So researchers can take a sna
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 07, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires constant monitoring. Patients have to check the level of sugar, or glucose i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 05, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
An image by Wang Qiang shows a mouse that carries two chromosomes fused together, the first engineered karyotype in mice
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 01, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
The CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system has revolutionized biomedical research, and has now even been used in the clinic is
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 30, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
While most of us are born with 2 sex chromosomes in either a combination of XX or XY, there are many cases of people who
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch