Biotech Workshop on Potato Breeding (ABSP II)
Bali, 28 July 2011
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Perlu Etika & Moral Dalam Bioteknologi
SECARA leksikal, makna bioteknologi adalah teknik yang mengubah suatu bahan mentah melalui proses transformasi biologi untuk menghasilkan barang dan jasa yang bermanfaat demi...
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Bioteknologi Berbasis Kekayaan Hayati
*Bioteknologi *memang penting jika dikaitkan dengan kekayaan hayati di negeri ini. Indonesia adalah negara nomor dua terbesar di dunia setelah Brasil yang...
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Pedoman Pelaksanaan Pengujian Keamanan Hayati
Rekayasa genetik melalui teknik transgenik telah lama digunakan pada hewan baik pada taraf penerapan maupun eksperimental. Tujuan utama dari pemanfaatan teknik transgenik adalah...
BUSINESS NEWS OUTLET RISES TO FOCUS ON CHINA, IN ENGLISH
- Date : 19 July 2010
HONG KONG — Many news organizations around the world have been cutting back on staff, resources and coverage. But a new media outfit backed by one of Hong Kong’s most prominent businessmen is bucking that trend. Cai Business Indepth, known as CBID, is aiming to become a major provider of reliable financial news and...
NET INCOME ALMOST TRIPLES FOR CHIP MAKER
- Date : 19 July 2010
Texas Instruments said Tuesday that its second-quarter profit nearly tripled from the year-earlier period, but its revenue fell short of Wall Street forecasts. The company said results in the current quarter could be better than Wall Street expectations, but the chief financial officer, Kevin March, said revenue in the second quarter was hurt because one...
STEPS FORWARD, AND BACKWARD, IN TREATING DIABETES
- Date : 19 July 2010
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE Russell Kohl of Newburgh, N.Y., getting an insulin injection from his wife. He was one of the first to receive insulin, in 1922. Catch the headline in The Times? “Warning Urged on Diabetes Pill,” it stated. “F.D.A. Proposes a Strongly Worded Label on Hazards of Heart Disease to User.” But...
POLIO: SETBACKS IN A MOSTLY SUCCESSFUL FIGHT TO ELIMINATE A PARALYZING DISEASE
- Date : 19 July 2010
The battle to eliminate polio, which has been more than 99 percent successful and has hovered on the verge of victory for a decade, has sustained new setbacks. There has been an outbreak of more than 300 cases in Tajikistan this year. (Tajikistan is just north of Afghanistan, and fighting on the Afghan-Pakistan border between...
SCREENING: GAPS FOUND IN BREAST CANCER TESTING
- Date : 19 July 2010
One-fifth of American women ages 50 to 74 have fallen behind on mammography screenings for breast cancer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are reporting. Although the percentage of women in this age group who get a regular breast cancer screening every two years increased steadily during the 1990s, the rate has remained...
RISKS: DEPRESSION LINKED TO LATER DEMENTIA
- Date : 19 July 2010
A new study suggests that people with depression are significantly more likely to develop dementia later in life. The analysis, published July 6 in the journal Neurology, followed 949 participants in the famous Framingham Heart Study over an average of eight and a half years, some for as long as 17 years. In that time,...
Perlu Etika & Moral Dalam Bioteknologi
- Date : 5 December 2009
SECARA leksikal, makna bioteknologi adalah teknik yang mengubah suatu bahan mentah melalui proses transformasi biologi untuk menghasilkan barang dan jasa yang bermanfaat demi kelangsungan hidup manusia sepanjang hayatnya. Mungkin di millenium ketiga ini kita sering mendengar istilah bioteknologi ini. Padahal, sudah sejak abad 11, manusia sebetulnya menggunakan prinsip dasar ini. Pembuatan makanan seperti tempe, peuyeum, dan yoghurt...
Bioteknologi Berbasis Kekayaan Hayati
- Date : 1 December 2009
*Bioteknologi *memang penting jika dikaitkan dengan kekayaan hayati di negeri ini. Indonesia adalah negara nomor dua terbesar di dunia setelah Brasil yang memiliki keragaman hayati. Bukan itu saja, secara spesifik, dua negara berkembang ini saling bersaing dalam menunjukkan kekayaan hayati yang dimilikinya, Brasil mempunyai jumlah keanekaragaman tumbuhan nomor satu, sedangkan Indonesia mempunyai keanekaragaman mamalia terbesar di dunia. Bedanya,...