Category: Bioengineering
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The Trends In Biotechnology
Abstract Recent upswing and advances in science and technology has exposed a great impact on all areas of human life. One of the most significant fields of science and technology is Biotechnology. The progression in biotechnology and the trends of biotechnology brought forward thinking and solutions for many of the complications that the human race…
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Is Biotechnology Important For Society?
Biotechnology is unavoidable in todays society. From household products to medical procedures, biotechnology is ubiquitous. Defined as something that harnesses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and to help improve lives, (Bio.org). There are three primary fields where biotechnology is used: medical, agricultural and industrial. Development in each of these fields is progressing at…
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The Advantages Of Biotechnology
Biotechnology can be defined as the exploitation of living systems and biological processes to develop tools for technological use. Applications may be used in areas such as industry (e.g. food, energy), medicine, environmental sciences, and computational design. The term biotechnology was introduced in 1919 by a Hungarian scientist, Karl Ereky, to refer in general to…
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Essay on Bioethics and Positives and Negatives of Bioengineering
Introduction: There are many advantages and disadvantages when it comes to genetically engineering a baby. There are also reasons why people would want to genetically engineer a baby. In the movie My Sisters Keeper, a couple used genetic engineering to prevent their daughter from being taken away by cancer. Although, they got these body parts…
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Environmental Biotechnology: Biotechnological Methods Monitoring Pollutants
INTRODUCTION In the world today, the demand for the use of sustainable and eco-friendly environmental processes is rapidly growing, subjected to economic, public, and legislation pressure. Biotechnology provides a pool of opportunities for effectively addressing issues pertaining to the monitoring, assessment, and treatment of contaminated water, air, and solid waste streams. These pollutants in the…
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Sexual Deviance: Death, Bioethics, and Utility
Morality and sin, these two terms are associated with the term Sexual Deviance which is the act of being deviant from the norms and standards of the society in terms of what they believed is right in terms of sexual activities. Many speculations exist because of different perspectives towards this issue. As stated in the…
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The Peculiarities Of Biomedical Engineering
What is Biomedical Engineering? Biomedical Engineering is the application of engineered products that advance information in biology, engineering, and medical purposes, and improves human wellbeing through interdisciplinary exercises that incorporate the designing sciences with the biomedical sciences and clinical practice. It incorporates: The education of new information and comprehension of living structures (systems) through the…
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Corona Virus (COVID-19): Introduction To Biochemical Engineering
What Is Corona Viruse (COVID-19) Corona viruses are a wide group of viruses that in animals and humans may cause disease. Corona viruses are known to cause respiratory infections in humans ranging from mild colds to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Since being first identified…
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Covid-19 And Biological Approach To Tackle It
BACKGROUND THE latest threat to global health was recently given the name COVID-19 caused by SARS-COV-2(severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2). FIRST case was reported in December 2019, in Wuhan, Hubei province, china and is rapidly spreading from Wuhan to the rest of the world. Many of the initial cases had a common exposure to the…
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What Is Systems Biology And How Does It Contribute To The Study Of Obesity?
Systems biology is the scientific analysis and modelling which displays systemic properties as well as dynamic interactions in biological objects. This holistic approach is used in a quantitative and qualitative manner by combining different experimental studies with mathematical modelling (Klipp et al., 2016). Systems biology can be used in order to establish the relationship between…