Interesting Developments in Multitude Fields of Biotechnology
Following titles recently posted in the SciDev.Net website may be of interest to GNOBB members. All the four are in areas of biotechnology directly related to the promotion of biotechnology in our country. The first title, “ Bangladeshi farmers banish insecticides ” has depicted how without the use of pesticides Bangladesh farmers were able to enhance the yield of crops, once they were trained how to avoid using pesticides without crop loss. The second article, “ GM crops are compatible with sustainable agriculture ” allays the fear of adversaries of GM crops who fear that their introduction will do irreparable loss to the ecosystem. The third article, “ WTO says Europe's GM ban broke trade rules ” brings to the attention of the EU countries that they cannot continue banning imports of GM crops from countries like Brazil because that will go against the trade rules which clearly spell out that without clear cut evidence such an embargo cannot be imposed on import of food crops. The fourth article “ Genomics accelerates East Coast Fever vaccine hunt ”, epitomizes as to how the cracking of the genomic library of Theileria parva, a parasite that causes a deadly cattle disease causing an annual loss of about USD 200 million, has helped the vaccine biotechnologists to come up with eight parasite proteins that have proved to be promising vaccine candidates.
