For success in biotechnology, look beyond biotechnology

A look at Modern Biotechnology

Modern Biotechnology has become the greatest issue of our time. According to Lovei et al (2010), the level of attention given by the general public towards Modern Biotechnology is possibly unparalleled since the appearance of atomic bomb. Similarly, here in Ethiopia, the issue is drawing the attentions of many enormously. Recently the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS) organized public lecture...

Business success in the biotechnology era.

Beyond PCR: Biotechnology as an Emerging Culture

the 1993 Nobel Prize for chemistry, Cetus' scientists contribution, which ultimately ended up in a drawer of Making PCR. A Story of Biotechnology. history, proved significant enough to justify an expola-rion of this issue. Hence, more than an account of the invention of PCR, Rabinow's working approach should be viewed as " an pp. $22.50 experiment in posing the problem of who has the author-ity...

Commonsense , Trust and Biotechnology : Moving Beyond

This paper advocates for clearer distinctions to be drawn between school science and scientists’ science, particularly with respect to the investigative processes that typify each. It draws on the findings of a recent survey of public attitudes to science in New Zealand, and on recent international research in science education. The paper explores the possibility that the images of science that...

ethics in biotechnology

the most modern techniques in biotechnology owe their existence to the discovery of dna cloning and the genetic manipulation of organisms. however biotechnology is not new science in fact, many applications represent old practices with new methodologies. human have been used organisms for their benefit in many processes for several thousand years. therefore, one way of thinking about biotechnol...