If you are a business executive today dealing with teetering financial markets and a weak economy, it’s doubtful you are thinking much about genomic literacy. But how well you, your company, and your industry understand this new, still esoteric language may have much to do with your company’s long-term survival and prosperity.
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What will the future hold for this ancient technology made new? I believe that in this field, the past is prologue. Biotechnology will be used, on an increasingly large scale, to satisfy our fundamental needs: food, clothing, shelter, fuel, health, and a variety of material objects.
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Predicting the future, especially the near future, is always tricky. Here are one expert’s bets on the biotech breakthroughs we will see over the next five years, ranked by which will have the greatest impact.
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Within the next 50 years, there’s a serious chance that we’ll discover an alien life form, not by finding life on a distant planet or indeed by such aliens visiting us on Earth, but by creating a new form of life ourselves.
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The majority of biotech products that have reached the market are the result of just a handful of genetic modifications and insertions. The commercial significance of the biotech sector will grow as its ability to engineer new biological systems expands.
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Despite uncertainties, companies are already selling genetic information to the public. Is this opportunism or consumer empowerment? And more important, what are the implications for the future of genomic medicine?
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The potential of biotechnology for Africa is great: it could enhance the nutritional value of grains and fruits, promote the use of biofertilizers, help develop diagnostic tests and vaccines for livestock diseases and infections that risk food security, and improve efficiency of producing fish in aquaculture—to name a few.
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09 Feb 2010 · 09:25:17 PM GMT
I read the article with great interest and sure enough it is far fetched in several respects and right on target in few specific areas. As a scientist who did extensive research in pluripotent cells and manipulated DNA and RNA and again as a Business...—Booma
In response to How biotech will reshape the global economy
15 Jan 2010 · 02:55:03 AM GMT
Maybe its not a gene variation, but a rejection of the body? If they didn’t have this gene variation, maybe it would be lethal?—Pharmacy
In response to Prognosis for personalized medicine
13 Jan 2010 · 12:28:50 PM GMT
Calestous Juma has done great job focusing Africa’s Biotech future. There are numerous neglected diseases in Africa and Future Biotech should aim at Point-of-care Diagnostics, cost effective yet quality biodrugs, and vaccines to tackle the pres...—Niranjan Kumar
In response to Africa’s biotech future
28 Oct 2009 · 12:54:37 PM GMT
Development of biotechnology is an expensive venture that many African countries cannot afford at the moment, so what can African countries do to attract more investments from outside the continent?—Tony Chang
In response to Africa’s biotech future
15 Oct 2009 · 12:39:43 PM GMT
This article is important and interesting. When I discuss nano and bionano with students of IT, they think it is not related to them. And, most have never even heard of nanotech, let alone thought about it. When I suggest they look for jobs in thi...—S Conger
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05 Oct 2009 · 01:27:36 AM GMT
as far as we know HIV/AIDS,it kills white blood cells.what if we look for a cartain ways of killing this strong virus like coming up with chemical which will not kill the cells but kill the virus.—samson