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Oxygen Deficiency: The Silent Killer

Oxygen Deficiency: The Silent Killer Injury or death due to oxygen deficiency is a common hazard in the petrochemical, refining and other industries, and confined spaces, if not properly monitored, can create hazards for workers and rescuers. Toxic gas often is to blame when workers unnecessarily die due to asphyxiation inenvironments where the oxygen actually is depleted by gases such as nitrogen. Inparticularly tragic cases, other workers or first responders have died trying to rescue workers

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COUNTRIES ARE JEALOUS OF INDIA NOW

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	Referred by ASHISH MITTAL, MSc Biotechnology, IIT ROORKEE \| 2 years ago

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Booming Biotechnology In India - In terms of Jobs

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How to make manufacturing plant more profitable ?

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	Idea added by Chandra shekhar, Content Writer, Leading Clinical Research Company \| Topic: Plant Biotechnology \| 2 years ago
	If manufacturing plant follows effective process plan then i am sure that it can experience profit in no time. Also, it should share profit with the employee because for any company employees are assets.

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Is Nokia 6700 slide a complete phone? If no, then name some back draws?

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Xylitol chewing gum could cut ear infection risk in children– study

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	Referred by varsha, Head/VP/GM-Quality, frac \| Topic: Healthy Dining-Promoting Good Eating \| 1 year ago
	Researchers at the University of Toronto have published a study review that claims chewing xylitol- based chewing gum five times a day can reduce acute middle ear infections (AOM) in young children. http://www.confectionerynews.com/Regulation-Safety/X...

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Edible vaccine for malaria on way

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	Referred by Bindu Narayan, Product Development Manager, Care Biomedicals \| 2 years ago
	Edible vaccine for malaria on way A spoonful of genetically modified starch could be a new malaria vaccine if a new strategy that seems to work in mice also performs well in humans. At present there is no efficient vaccine against malaria, which is...

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sir plz tell me about the future of M.SC Biochemistry student in pharma companies?

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	Answered by Chandra shekhar, Content Writer, Leading Clinical Research Company \| Topic: Trends and Future Directions for Life Sciences \| 2 years ago
	Dear Rahul Sharma, I dont want to discourage you by saying that future of biochemistry is very competitive when compared to other fields. initially you have to analyze few things about self. Ask these questions to yourself. Reply to me with answers to...

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	HarNeedi.com, India's No 1 Jobsite for Healthcare and pharma featuring KONNEXION - 'Healthcare and Pharma Online webinar series on "Biotech- Recruitment trends and challenges" by Ravi C. Das Gupta, Head Group, HR Biocon Limited. Hurry Up! Register Now

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Recombinant Proteins

Recombinant Proteins produced in Genetically Engineered Crops Suresh Chand Kaushik Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi – 110 012 Before the advent of recombinant protein expression system, a desired protein either for pharmaceutical or industrial purposes has been isolated from the original source in its native tissue or organism. The protein is intracellularly processed to its native conformation. The material is in limited supply and can be expensive to obtain and maintai

contribution of genetic engineering in plant biotechnology

India has come a long way since its adoption of Bt cotton in 2002. It is ranked fourth in the world among Bt crops growing countries, in terms of hectares. With a number of other Bt crops under research, the country is heading for a bigger share of the pie in the next few years . Biotech maize, most planted crop In 2008, 17, or two-thirds of the 25-biotech countries planted biotech maize (same as in 2007), 10 countries planted biotech soybean (up from nine), 10 countries planted biotech cotto

Computational Challenges in Comparative Genomics Go to Topic

Assume your own genome has been sequenced...

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Mere sequence entries in a database do not do the job . U need to have a rational approach towards this. It took several years for the science to reach to this stage where we r now. Still a lot to be achieved.We need more institutions which can...

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IPR issues, patentability of new inventions and granting of data exclusivity Go to Topic

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10 Big Myths about copyright explained

An attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication. - by Brad Templeton Note that this is an essay about copyright myths . It assumes you know at least what copyright is -- basically the legal exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work. 1) "If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted." This was true in the past, but today almost all major nations follow

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Facebook and Twitter guide flavour firm’s consumer research

By Jess Halliday, Food firms wanting to capture the views and tastes of consumers need to tap social media, says Symrise, which is now dedicating resources to using emerging online tools. Websites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have heralded a new era for the internet, and are used by consumers as tools to communicate with friends and express their views on all manner of subjects. For food ingredients suppliers, they have immense potential for identifying trends and capturing feedback that

Allergy specialists suggest warning symbol for foods, non-foods

Use of a common symbol to indicate the presence of individual allergens in food and personal care products could help allergy sufferers identify products to avoid – especially in multi-lingual communities, say specialists from Imperial College. Incidence of allergy has been increasing. In the UK some 1.8 per cent of children now have peanut allergy; in the US, 8 per cent of children and 4 per cent of adults have a food allergy. This means it is vital that people with allergies (or parents) can

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what is difference between quality assurance and quality control??

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The terms “quality assurance” and “quality control” are often used interchangeably to refer to ways of ensuring the quality of a service or product. The terms, however, have different meanings. Assurance: The act of giving confidence, the state...

Best Formulations gets GMP certification

Softgel supplier Best Formulations has received GMP certification for its manufacturing plant, following an independent third party audit at its facility. The NSF audit evaluated the firm’s plant, equipment, production process, control systems, documentation and personnel. The contract manufacturer said its facility was found to meet NSF/ANSI Standard 173 GMP requirements, which are consistent with the US Food and Drug Administration’s GMP regulation for dietary supplements. The GMP rules, inst

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The Success Myth

By DAVID SHENK Baseball legend Ted Williams was widely considered the most gifted hitter of his time, endowed with spectacular eye-hand coordination, exquisite muscular grace and uncanny instincts. "Ted just had that natural ability," said Hall of Fame second baseman Bobby Doerr. David Shenk But to Williams himself, all that innate miracle-man stuff was just "a lot of bull." He insisted his great achievements were simply the sum of what he had put into the game. "Nothing except practice, practi

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Could wheat allergy play a role in diabetes development?

By Stephen Daniells, An abnormal response to wheat proteins may tip a person’s delicately poised immune system into developing type-1 diabetes, suggests a study from Canada. Writing in the journal Diabetes , researchers from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa report that almost half of the 42 type-1 diabetics tested in their study had an abnormal immune response to wheat proteins. “The presence of an [immune response] to [wheat proteins] in a subset of patients

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Loss of plant species of potential medicinal value Go to Topic

MYTH AND FACT

There are endless food myths parents use every day to get their children to eat nutritious food – 'spinach will make you strong like Popeye', 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' and 'eating carrots helps you see in the dark'. A major Australian study called the Blue Mountains eye study, conducted in the late 1990s, examined the link between increased vitamin A intake and deteriorating night vision in older people. The authors found that people who reported having poor eyesight ate more carro

Climate change threatens medicinal plants, says ABC

A new review has found that changing weather conditions are threatening the existence of some species of medicinal plants, which could have a knock-on effect on supplies and prices of extracts used in dietary supplements. According to an article published by the American Botanical Council (ABC) in its latest issue of HerbalGram, some key species could even be lost as a result of climate change. Species lost? The findings, from medicinal plant researchers and conservationists, reveal that specie

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FDA requests comments on Nutrition Facts research

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested comments on a study examining consumer reaction to possible modification of Nutrition Facts labeling, it said in a Federal Register notice. By Caroline Scott-Thomas, The FDA issued three advance notices of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) in response to the recommendations, developed through consumer research, of its Obesity Working Group (OWG), two in 2005 and one in 2007. Now the FDA is seeking comments on the three ANPRMs and on a proposed expe

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Research in the area of Plant Biotechnology for biotic and abiotic stresses.

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