Read this article to learn about Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Application to Plant Health, Genetic Improvement and Bio-diversity Based Biotechnology Application to Plant Health: Monoclonal antibodies, recombinant antigens, and molecular plant disease tests have greatly improved diagnostic systems and pathogen characterisation. The most widely used technique for generating pathogen/virus free plants in the region […]
Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries
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6 Methods of DNA Sequencing | Biotechnology
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The following are the common methods of DNA sequencing:- 1. Sequencing 2. Manual Sequencing 3. Automated Sequencing 4. Southern Blotting 5. Northern Blotting 6. Western Blotting. Method # 1. Sequencing: One of the major methods of DNA sequencing in known as chain termination sequencing, dideoxy sequencing, or Sanger sequencing after its inventor biochemist Frederick Sanger. […]
Short Notes on Treating Genetic Disease
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Until recently, no real thought was given to a treating a genetic disease except for traditional methods of reducing the symptoms of the diseases. With recent developments in gene therapy, the possibility of “correcting” mutated or altered genes has come into being. For example, hemophilia is a disease causes by a defect in the gene […]