Biotechnology in sentence

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And I set myself and impossible target: can Tamil speaking 12-year-old children in a South Indian village teach themselves biotechnology in English on their own?

I asked that girl, "Would you teach them enough biotechnology to pass?"

The scores went up to 50, which is what the posh schools of New Delhi, with a trained biotechnology teacher were getting.

This requires cutting-edge biotechnology, immunology, and ultimately bioengineering to create large-scale industrial responses (such as millions of doses of vaccines or medicines in the case of large epidemics).

Any effort to address this “dual use” dilemma must ultimately be international, since biotechnology research is a genuinely global enterprise.

Can the unfolding revolution in genomics (the study not of individual genes but of all genes as an entity) and biotechnology be harnessed to reduce these inequities?

Second, developing country concerns must be kept at the forefront of discussions about the potential benefits of genomics and biotechnology.

That could be the result of the well-meaning but extremely misguided attempts by European and North American groups that advise Africans to be wary of agricultural biotechnology.''

For example, Cuba has a significant biotechnology industry: it developed the only effective meningitis B vaccine (which, despite the embargo, is imported into the US); and in 1998 it produced 30 tons of transgenic tilapia fish.

Income from Cuba's biotechnology exports is sufficient to sustain Cuba's biotech research and development expenditure.

India, Brazil, China and several other developing countries also have serious research and development efforts in biotechnology.

This should harmonize the approach towards the application of genomics and biotechnology to solve major health problems worldwide.

An early indicator of success will be when the global discourse on biotechnology focuses on the benefits as well as the risks, and on the concerns of both the developing and developed world.

We see radical technological advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and materials design going on all around us.

It is impossible to know whether synthetic organisms like Venter’s JCVI-syn 3.0 or gene-editing techniques will prove to be commercially dominant in biotechnology – or indeed whether some other method will supplant both.

Seven years ago, the President of the European Commission requested the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (of which I was a member) to examine the "ethical aspects of the labeling of foods derived from modern biotechnology."

The opinion also included the following remark: " modern biotechnology, as a technique used in food production, cannot be regarded in itself as ethical or unethical ."

First, why are Europeans more reluctant than Americans to embrace biotechnology?

Even so, once the political causes of famine and malnutrition in developing countries are resolved, the use of modern biotechnology in agriculture and food production could potentially make an immense contribution to social welfare and economic advancement.

For example, advances in medical science and biotechnology are helping to stem workers’ physical and cognitive decline.

Around the globe, entire industries are being redefined and created from scratch, owing to groundbreaking developments in artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing.

The result was the ability to move functional genes from one organism to another virtually at will – the basis of modern biotechnology.

We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.

Barely a day passes without the announcement of some major new development in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digitization, or automation.

We have seen this in the European Commission’s reluctance to decide how products based on green biotechnology may be used.

And yet another team is collaborating with biotechnology experts to find ways to regenerate human tissue, giving hope to those paralyzed by spinal cord injuries that they may one day walk again.

Government laid the foundations of the Internet and the modern biotechnology revolutions.

Government-supported research shaped scientific advances in information technology and biotechnology, two critical fields in which the US has the global scientific lead.

A clear set of rules on feed procurement would eliminate international imbalances in nutrients, and diminish the power of multinational agricultural biotechnology corporations like Monsanto.

But most of China’s high-tech investments so far have been abroad – in sectors ranging from electronics and biotechnology to software and nanotechnology – which won’t change its value-chain ranking.

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