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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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DEC 30, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Electricity is a key aspect of life, and is required for organisms to move and communicate. The movement of tiny charged ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 30, 2020Clinical & Molecular DX
Medical imaging technologies enable physicians to take a peek under the hood, capturing snapshots of the internal organs ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 29, 2020Clinical & Molecular DX
The statistics are a real eye-opener: in the United States, one person dies every 36 seconds from cardiovascular disease ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 29, 2020Microbiology
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is thought to infect a third of the people on the planet as well as a wide range of other ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 28, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Every cell contains our whole genome, but not all genes are turned on all the time; gene expression has to be very caref ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 27, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Gene therapy holds tremendous promise for its potential to cure genetic diseases. We've also recently seen how critical ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 27, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibodies are naturally used by the body to bind targets on pathogens and neutralize them, and these specific interacti ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 17, 2020Genetics & Genomics
More and more people are being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease as the world's population ages. Scientists have now en ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 16, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
The cell has many specialized components that perform specific functions, like an organelle called the endoplasmic retic ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 15, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Many isolated individuals have been isolated this year, and the holidays may only exacerbate feelings of loneliness.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 13, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Researchers led by Professor Carmen Birchmeier at the MDC have used a cutting-edge tool to learn more about different nu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2020Microbiology
Our world is filled with different types of bacteria, and they have to coexist with one another. They have to compete fo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 08, 2020Clinical & Molecular DX
In the 1530s, hundreds of years before microscopes and Petri dishes, an Italian physician called Girolamo Fracastoro wro ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 08, 2020Genetics & Genomics
The many advances that have propelled the field of genetics forward have taken a tremendous amount of work in different ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 07, 2020Plants & Animals
NOAA researchers used video taken on an underwater expedition to identify a new species of comb jellyfish, or ctenophore ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 06, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Zebrafish are a great model organism for biomedical research. They generate large numbers of embryos that develop rapidl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 04, 2020Genetics & Genomics
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool has tremendous potential to treat genetic diseases, but sometimes it makes unintended ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 02, 2020Cardiology
Researchers used data from over 30,000 people in this study, which included MRI and blood pressure information.Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 01, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
The genome has instructions for creating and maintaining an organism, but most biological functions involve their transl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 01, 2020Clinical & Molecular DX
Widespread diagnostic testing capacities are an absolutely critical tool for countries battling the pandemic. For now, m ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 01, 2020Immunology
Thanks to a new hydrogel biomaterial developed by researchers at Duke University, we are one step closer to the holy gra ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 01, 2020Microbiology
The link between the microbes we carry in our gastrointestinal tract and our health has become clear, and now researcher ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 30, 2020Genetics & Genomics
In the latter half of the last century, agriculture underwent a technological revolution that enabled farmers to create ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
DEC 30, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Electricity is a key aspect of life, and is required for organisms to move and communicate. The movement of tiny charged
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 30, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
Medical imaging technologies enable physicians to take a peek under the hood, capturing snapshots of the internal organs
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 29, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
The statistics are a real eye-opener: in the United States, one person dies every 36 seconds from cardiovascular disease
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 29, 2020
Microbiology
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is thought to infect a third of the people on the planet as well as a wide range of other
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 28, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Every cell contains our whole genome, but not all genes are turned on all the time; gene expression has to be very caref
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 27, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Gene therapy holds tremendous promise for its potential to cure genetic diseases. We've also recently seen how critical
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 27, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibodies are naturally used by the body to bind targets on pathogens and neutralize them, and these specific interacti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 17, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
More and more people are being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease as the world's population ages. Scientists have now en
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 16, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
The cell has many specialized components that perform specific functions, like an organelle called the endoplasmic retic
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 15, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Many isolated individuals have been isolated this year, and the holidays may only exacerbate feelings of loneliness.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 13, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers led by Professor Carmen Birchmeier at the MDC have used a cutting-edge tool to learn more about different nu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2020
Microbiology
Our world is filled with different types of bacteria, and they have to coexist with one another. They have to compete fo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
In the 1530s, hundreds of years before microscopes and Petri dishes, an Italian physician called Girolamo Fracastoro wro
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 08, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
The many advances that have propelled the field of genetics forward have taken a tremendous amount of work in different
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2020
Plants & Animals
NOAA researchers used video taken on an underwater expedition to identify a new species of comb jellyfish, or ctenophore
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 06, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Zebrafish are a great model organism for biomedical research. They generate large numbers of embryos that develop rapidl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 04, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool has tremendous potential to treat genetic diseases, but sometimes it makes unintended
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 02, 2020
Cardiology
Researchers used data from over 30,000 people in this study, which included MRI and blood pressure information.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 01, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
The genome has instructions for creating and maintaining an organism, but most biological functions involve their transl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 01, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
Widespread diagnostic testing capacities are an absolutely critical tool for countries battling the pandemic. For now, m
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 01, 2020
Immunology
Thanks to a new hydrogel biomaterial developed by researchers at Duke University, we are one step closer to the holy gra
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 01, 2020
Microbiology
The link between the microbes we carry in our gastrointestinal tract and our health has become clear, and now researcher
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 30, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
In the latter half of the last century, agriculture underwent a technological revolution that enabled farmers to create
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch