BASIC (Bay Area Science & Innovation Consortium) www.bayareabasic.org • basic@bayareacouncil.org Bay Area Council Economic Institute www.bayareaeconomy.org • bacei@bayareacouncil.org 201 California Street‚ Suite 1450‚ San Francisco‚ CA 94111 (415) 981-7117 • Fax (415) 981-6408 The Bay Area Innovation System How the San Francisco Bay Area Became the World’s Leading Innovation Hub and What Will Be Necessary to Secure Its Future A Bay Area Science & Innovation Consortium Report produced
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GENETIC MODIFIED FOODS: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES Nataliya Mogilna‚ Alex Magufwa Sumy State University‚ Sumy‚ Ukraine What are genetically-modified foods? "Genetically modified foods" is the term most commonly used to refer to crop plants created for human or ani mal consumption‚ which have been modified in the laboratory to enhance desired traits or improved nutritional content. The enhancement of desired traits has traditionally been undertaken through breeding‚ but conventional plant
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In the various purviews of its functioning‚ one unit of the company is called iMed (Innovative Medicines & Early Development) Biotech. iMed launched a website to support various open source innovation programmes and to facilitate better research and collaborations with academia‚ governments‚ industry and industry. The main agenda is directed at the scientist around the globe to
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Paragraph 1: About GMF Modified and engineered foods are highly debated yet often not clearly understood by the public. It can seem almost impossible to find trustworthy information on GM crops. Studies and scholarly articles can even elicit controversy. Many different terms can be tossed around‚ which is often confusing to someone not well versed in the vocabulary. We may hear‚ Genetically Engineered (GE) food or Genetically Modified Food (GMF) and although we may see the terms GM and GE used interchangeably
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Biocentric Ethics Analysis SCI/362 April 1‚ 2014 Prof. Michelle Orzech Biocentric Ethics Analysis There have been debates about GMO’s for decades. While farmers fight for their land and the continuance to produce‚ farmers were given the option to plant seeds that are genetically modified. The seeds in turn would grow more crops and last longer. The compulsion on the farmers to make ample crops and try to help world hunger would not just cost more for them‚ but it can also cause lack of
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MARKET PREDICTIONS Hearing Journal: December 2012 - Volume 65 - Issue 12 - p 14–16 Hearing Industries Association - “The current unit sales in the US are below my expectation of [approximately] five percent‚” observed Oliver Metzger‚ a life sciences equity analyst at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt‚ Germany‚ who tracks hearing aid stocks. “I had imagined that the market growth would increase in units after it had grown only by [about] three percent in units in 2011 and after [the first quarter]
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Introductions to biotechnology (Code: BT150IU‚ BT150UN‚ Bt150WE) COURSE OVERVIEW This course presents the summary of aspects of biotechnology including the history‚ the general view of molecules and cells‚ immunology‚ microbiology‚ plants and animal‚ genomics and their own applications. Each major is structured in one lecture. The lectures are organized in lessons with theory and applications. Students attend the class will be required to prepare an assignment on which they most concern in biotechnology
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The Food Police by Jayson Lusk In today’s world we witness horrible epidemics and tragedies on a seemingly daily basis. There are groups of people out there‚ groups that Jayson Lusk refers to as the “food police” in his book so aptly titled‚ “The Food Police‚” who choose to focus their energies on creating pseudo-controversies by using false or flawed research and drawing conclusions based on emotion rather than on logic. The food police have managed to influence the thinking of our media
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Statement of purpose for pharmacy school My mother leaned over and handed me a box‚ it was my birthday‚ and I was only 8 years old‚ living in China with my parents. I tore open the box and inside I found a gift that was to change my life. My mother and father‚ knowing I was a curious child‚ bought me a chemistry toy set. From that moment on‚ I became fascinated by the workings of science. My subsequent interest in the composition of drugs‚ their chemical and physical properties began to galvanize
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the same design of a beak ‚ this reduced noise ‚ used less power and enabled higher speed. Tardigrades need water fro live‚ when outside water they cover their molecular mechanism with proteins ‚ DNA in a sugar‚ this gave inspiration to a lot of biotech companies and their vaccines lasted as long as six months without refrigerating. Certain spiders weave their webs with a special silk rope in such a way that Ultra Violet rays are reflected‚ and thus birds can see these obstacles and avoid accidents
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