• Hubs
  • tagged biotechnology

1-10 of 49 hubssort by Hot Best Latest

Pigs85

Jane Burgermeister and infighting with conspiracy theorists about Swine flu

A big problem in the fields of ufology and conspiracy theory, which the media and the controllers of the world are no doubt very glad about, is infighting between its leading authors, speakers and...

47 comments    hubchallenge truth youtube
Bringing Extinct Animals Back to Life Using Cloning95

Cloning Extinct Animals - Can Extinct Species be Brought Back to Life Using Cloning

It may now be possible to bring back extinct species by cloning dead specimens, and growing them in the wombs of similar or related animals. Not long ago, the idea of cloning extinct animals sounded like...

47 comments    technology education science
(public domain)75

Top 15 Hot Jobs in Chanhassen MN

Chanhassen is Money Magazine's 2nd Best Place to Live in America. A suburb to the southwest of the Twin Cities, Chanhassen is home to approximately...

7 comments    hubchallenge jobs employment
Rockingham County, SE corner of the state of New Hampshire.81

Top 10 Hot Jobs in Portsmouth NH

Portsmouth, New Hampshire is among the Top 30 Cities for Jobs in America, even during a recession. This metropolitan area stands at Number 28 on this list for several reasons. One is the proactive...

2 comments    careers environment job search
Courtesy museumdetoulouse @ flickr.com85

Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood and the Coming Plague

Margaret Atwood's most recent novel The Year of the Flood is a continuation of Oryx and Crake, the 2003 dystopian masterpiece that she calls 'speculative fiction', not science fiction. Whatever these novels...

35 comments    swine flu sick plague
There is much opposition to food biotechnology77

Food Biotechnology | Genetically Engineered Food and Its Effects

There is much opposition to food biotechnology Farmers had been using the long process of selective breeding of plants and animals for years. The scene is very different now. Farmers now have the option of...

4 comments    technology science fda
70

Maintaining Internal Environment

The extremes of environmental conditions upset the internal environment of cells and organisms, which can severely damage their system and performance or even life. There is only a very narrow range of...

0 comments    water heat cells
Green Bean Plant. Image: (c)Marye Audet 200881

Genetically Modified Foods: From Test Tube to Table

Many people are not convinced of the safety of genetic modification of foods. Some believe that the GMOs pose potential risks to the environment, human health, and even the economy. Since the agri-business community does have rather a long history of pursuing the almighty dollar over the welfare of the nation it is hard to believe that they are pursuing GMOs out of a concern for humanity.

7 comments    health technology home
69

A walk along the small side - NANOSCIENCE

Nanotechnology is a group of emerging technologies in which the structure of matter is controlled at the nanometer scale, the scale of small numbers of atoms, to produce novel materials and devices that...

4 comments    technology how medicine
64

The Important Steps in the Cell Cycle

A rising level of G1 cyelins signals the cell to prepare the chromosomes for replication. A rising level of S-phase promoting factor (SPF) prepares the cell to enter S-.phase and duplicate its DNA (and its...

2 comments    cell dna monitor
working