Wastewater is a by-product of domestic, industrial, commercial or agricultural activities. Eutrophication is a result of the discharge of nitrate or phosphate-containing detergents, fertilizers, or sewage into an aquatic system. when a body of water becomes overly enriched with minerals and nutrients that induce excessive growth of plants and algae may result in oxygen … [Read more...]
Another Sci hub Alternative – Twitter’s #ICanHazPDF
Imagine sitting on your desktop with all the energy needed to write down your next research paper or PDF thesis. After searching the right paper needed for writing its foundation, it is paywalled behind a 400 meters wall. Sci hub alternatives also suffer legal crackdown due to their illegality. How to download Research Paper using #ICanHazPDF? To use this Sci hub … [Read more...]
Genetic Engineering in Humans
Over the past few years, the field of biotechnology has advanced at a very high rate that scientists can now “edit” plants and animals at the genomic level. Different genetic engineering or genome-editing techniques such as zinc finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), meganucleases and the CRISPR/Cas9 system have aided scientists to alter … [Read more...]
Sci-hub Alternatives to Download Research Papers for Free
Science publishing is expensive ( or pretends to be). Accessing paywalled research papers by early researchers of developing countries is becoming difficult. Most of them are using Sci-hub to download free research articles. Unfortunately, being an illegal way for downloading papers, Sci-hub keeps changing its domain name. There are few Sci-hub alternatives. You can use them to … [Read more...]
Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering offers enormous benefits to humans. It has the potential to fulfil the human’s needs to a larger extent. For many years it is under practice to modify the organism’s genetic makeup. However, it also causes the number of harmful effects. So, we must weigh the Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering. Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering in Animals and … [Read more...]
What is Genetic Engineering?
Genetic engineering is the modification of genes that code proteins vital to the functioning of a living being. “It is the process of manipulating the organism’s genome by the modification of the genes.” Recent advancements also found the role of non-gene DNA regions also. So, Genetic engineering can involve the manipulation of those regions also. It uses techniques … [Read more...]
Myths & Facts About Conocarpus and Its Plantation in Pakistan
Pakistan is ready for the largest Plantation campaign on this 14th August to fight increasing temperature, pollution in an effort to conserve natural resources. People are teaming all around the country for this country-wide effort to assure Green-Pakistan for future generations. Among the many species of plants being grown, Conocaprus - a mangrove plant is most widely used … [Read more...]
Life Skills Learnt in Molecular Biology Lab
Since the very beginning of my work in a Biotechnology lab, there is always something new to learn and improve. Skills learnt are not only useful in doing your lab things but sometimes also helps you with household chores. I didn't know when I become a good gardener while growing maize in the field for RNA Extraction and become a good dishwasher while washing my agar plates … [Read more...]
Most Weird Questions People ask Biotechnologists – Answered
Biotechnology is an interdisciplinary science which equally deals with life sciences, computer sciences and mathematics. Biotechnologists are known to do amazing things by modifying the code which is constituting our life. People always rush to ask biotechnologists some really amazing question which is quite weird, funny and amazing. Here are the top 5 such common question … [Read more...]
Nanobionics and Bioinspired Nanotechnology
Bionics is the study and design of engineering system including electronic ones and these systems are based on the biological system. Bionics is also termed as biomimicry and it is similar to biologically inspired design. The word bionic was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958. Nanobionics is the nanoscale electronic interactions in biological systems. Bioinspired nanotechnology … [Read more...]