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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Biotechnologies"”.
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Biotechnologies in the Philippines: The Cost of Regulation
Biotechnologies potentially have significant benefits for developing countries but many countries lack complete regulatory processes to allow their release. In evaluating the potential benefits of genetically modified crops, one must be able to measure the true cost of regulations in addition to …
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The values and ethics of biomedical engineering practices in the design of novel biotechnologies
Many novel biomedical technologies are currently in development at university-based laboratories across the United States. They are designed to provide cutting-edge diagnostics and treatments to patients within clinical settings. The primary designers of these novel technologies are biomedical …
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Mise en place d'un système de contrôle de gestion dans une entreprise du secteur des biotechnologies
… une société anonyme active dans le secteur des biotechnologies. Elle est spécialisée dans la production de bactéries et la fabrication, à partir de celles-ci de différents mélanges bactériens. Initialement, les produits de XXX étaient vendus à de nombreuses sociétés souhaitant contrôler …
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Symbiotic Shift: Transcultural Explorations of Community-Guided CRISPR Biotechnology Development
… the next generation of CRISPR gene editing biotechnologies that values cultural knowledge and intentionally seeks guidance from the communities that these biotechnologies may impact in the far future. Although this specific conversation focuses on ecological editing biotechnologies, it is a …
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Interactions between basic and applied research:the example of research leading to multiple disease resistant potato cultivar development
… at the same time developing and maintaining new biotechnologies. The projected rate of return for potato disease resistant research was calculated at 34 percent which falls within the range given by similar studies. With the advent of the new biotechnologies such as genetic engineering, and the …
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Strategies for designing, testing and demonstrating safety : what synthetic biology can learn from retrospective cases
… of traditional engineering and current cases of biotechnologies provide external validation and further illustrate which practices address which design, testing and demonstration needs. While most of the traditional engineering cases addressed safety through design and testing, when they were …
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New strategies for in vivo continuous directed evolution
… hypotheses and the development of new biotechnologies. Unfortunately, current iterations are difficult to implement and largely restricted to E. coli. Furthermore, mutation rates are limited by the lack of simple mutagenesis methods that can focus mutations to desired portions of a …
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Algorithms for Understanding and Fighting Infectious Disease
… algorithmic advances that, when coupled with biotechnologies for data collection and perturbation, are aimed at understanding infectious disease and using this knowledge to fight it. First, this thesis develops geometric algorithms that enable a panoramic understanding of the systems biology …
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Three essays on the competitiveness of the US corn seed industry
… cost that seed production and the development of biotechnologies necessitates. In the second essay I provide an analysis of the determinants and implications of shortening life cycles of corn hybrids varieties over the last ten years. I use duration analysis to show that the shortening of the life …
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General approach for the application of Supramolecular NanoStamping (SuNS) to surfaces of all types
… expansion. The same is now true for nano- and biotechnologies that, to a large extent, have yet to find the technologies that will best answer their processing needs. The question is to find an approach that will enable the production of devices with the required resolution, complexity and …
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The governance of agriculture: Global programs of development and agricultural biotechnology.
… incorporation and development of agricultural biotechnologies into these farming practices. Based on my analysis, I illustrate how the FAD and UNESCO, through their reliance upon professional forms of expert knowledge, facilitate the global management of agricultural practices.Dept. of …
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Bodies, Land, and Instagram: Networked Foraging and Infrastructural Media in the United States
… foragers use their bodies and foraged foods as biotechnologies with which to intimately connect with the land, develop new relationships, and maintain local ecosystems. At the same time, the learning process for some networked foragers may be limited by Western, colonial scientific perspectives …
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Diseño de la biolixiviación en continuo para la gestión de residuos piríticos
… resources. Currently, biohydrometallurgical biotechnologies applied to the mining and metallurgical sectors are used industrially for Cu production and as a pretreatment of Au ores and concentrates. Environmental applications are still in the research, development, and demonstration phase of …
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New forces yet undetermined : the challenge of biodefense
… in the strategic environment: 2 1 st century biotechnologies and the emergence of serious non-state adversaries. This dissertation proposes refinements to the traditional strategies of prevention, deterrence, and defense. Prevention seeks to stop an adversary or a potential adversary from …
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The Transposon-Encoded Protein TnpB is an RNA-Guided Nuclease
… for important therapeutic and diagnostic biotechnologies. One CRISPR effector protein, the Cas12 nuclease, is hypothesized to have its evolutionary origins in TnpB, an abundant transposon-encoded protein that contains a predicted nuclease domain. The biochemical properties of TnpB are …
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Photochemically produced reactive species generation by extracellular organic matter sensitizers from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Microalgae biotechnologies have shown promise as tertiary wastewater treatment processes capable of reducing nitrogen and phosphorous to meet increasingly stringent regulatory limits and as producers of biofuel feedstock. During growth and respiration, microalgae excrete extracellular organic …
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(Im)possible baby : how to stimulate discussions about possibilities of two-mum and two-dad children
… cultural and ethical implications of emerging biotechnologies that could enable same-sex couples to have their own, genetically related children. Delivering a baby from same-sex parents is starting to not look like a sci-fi dream anymore recent developments in genetics and stem cell research, …
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Designer Genes: An analysis of a theoretical framework for policy proposals in relation to genetic engineering as a reproductive technology
… new capabilities of genetic engineering and such biotechnologies, come added considerations for policy makers. If gene therapy (or even embryo selection) becomes common practice, we must look not only to creating policies that protect the interests of individuals in the legal and social realms, …
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The Politics of Health: Community Engagement in South African HIV Vaccine Trial Sites
… of the social and political aspects of health biotechnologies. Reaching beyond the literature on trial participation, it explores the extent to which members of Community Advisory Boards (CABs) play meaningful political roles in South African vaccine clinical trial sites. The thesis confirms …
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Deconstructing Ihf-Mediated Inhibition of the Complex acs Promoter
… collaborator, Dr. Bianca Sclavi (Laboratoire de Biotechnologies et Pharmacologie génétique Appliquée, Paris, France) showed that occupancy of IHF III mediates formation of a stalled unproductive transcription complex. This work was published in Molecular Microbiology.</p><p>I furthered this …
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