The role of knowledge and information in innovation: the case of genetic engineering

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Weisenfeld ◽  
Dirk Nissen ◽  
Kathrin Gassert
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering

On Perceived Conflicts between Religion and Science: The Role of Fundamentalism and Right-Wing Authoritarianism

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alida S. Westman ◽  
Jonathan Willink ◽  
John W. McHoskey
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Organ Transplants ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Right Wing Authoritarianism ◽  
Partial Correlations

Volunteers from fundamentalist churches and a Psychology of Religion class ( N = 77) completed Altemeyer and Hunsberger's 1992 Fundamentalism Scale, Altemeyer's 1988 Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale, and answered questions about science, religion, and their relationship. Scores on the scales were highly positively correlated. Neither orientation correlated with seeing science as improving life, and both correlated with being troubled by newer developments in science such as organ transplants or genetic engineering. Partial correlations showed that both orientations favored religious beliefs over scientific data when there was a perceived conflict. Three subscales of right-wing authoritarianism clarified how authoritarianism correlated with other measures, thereby supporting a multidimensional conceptualization of right-wing authoritarianism.

The role of the chemical industry in improving the effectiveness of agriculture

1985 ◽  
Vol 310 (1144) ◽  
pp. 201-213 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Crop Improvement ◽  
Application Technology ◽  
Novel Technology ◽  
Basic Plant ◽  
Technological Opportunities

The development and marketing of novel technology by the chemical industry has been a fundamental ingredient in the improvement of crop yields. Further advances will result from the continuing development of more effective pesticides. Improved application technology and better diagnosis of precise crop requirements will also lead to the more efficient usage of existing and future products. New approaches to crop improvement based on chemical plant-growth regulators and genetic engineering of plants represent major technological opportunities for the future. Realization of these opportunities demands a substantially increased investment in basic plant research, a requirement already recognized within the chemical industry.

scholarly journals Role of Microparticles as Messengers Enhancing Stem Cell Activity After Genetic Engineering

2012 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa A. Liehn ◽  
Octavian Bucur ◽  
Christian Weber
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cell ◽  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Cell Activity ◽  
Stem Cell Activity

Genetic Engineering, Globalization and the Future of Ecology: An Ecocritical Study of Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Dipak Kaphle
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Corporate Profit ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Genetic Engineering Technology

Applying ecocritical perspectives, this study examines and analyzes the impacts of genetic engineering under the dominance of corporate organizations in the era of globalization in Margaret Atwood’s fiction The Year of the Flood. The intrusion of genetic engineering in the age of globalization has been problematic because of the anthropocentric values of the corporate houses. In this context, this study argues that genetic engineering technology, if goes uncontrolled, is manipulated for corporate profit only, and raises serious risks to global biodiversity by promoting monoculture flora and fauna. Similarly, the study proves that the intense profit-making desire of the corporate world leads to global pandemic threatening the existence of natural organisms including humans. Members of the ‘God’s Gardeners’ in The Year of the Flood prepare themselves to be safe from the ‘Waterless Flood,’ a global pandemic that has been the result of uncontrolled experimentation of genetic engineering on food, animals and drug for corporate houses. The text, however, offers the possibilities of saving lives if genetic engineering is used from humanitarian perspectives. This research helps in understanding the role of economic activities in disturbing the global biodiversity. For the purpose of textual analysis, the study applies ecocritical perspectives of Vandana Shiva, Jeffery M. Smith, Claire Hope Cummings, and others with especial focus on “bioimperialism” as discussed by Shiva.

The role of biotechnology in enhancing the digestion of forage cell walls by ruminants (jerry hughes scholarship)

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 ◽  
pp. 73-73
Author(s):  
E. R. Deaville
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Genetic Manipulation ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Animal Nutrition ◽  
Rumen Microbes

The term biotechnology has been defined as the application of biological organisms, systems or processes to manufacture and service industries (Anon, 1980) and is, therefore, more than the application of ‘genetic engineering’ techniques alone. The potential application of biotechnology to the agricultural livestock industry includes many wide ranging areas: animal health; breeding; livestock production; livestock nutrition and the nutritive value of feeds. The role of biotechnology in animal nutrition and feeding is of particular importance since feed costs account for a significant proportion of the total variable costs in any livestock production system (e.g. milk, meat). The potential implications of biotechnology in animal nutrition has been reviewed by Armstrong (1986) and includes references to the improvement of the nutritive value of feeds through, for example, genetic manipulation of feed sources (cereals), appropriate supplementation and the use of biological inoculants with or without enzymes as silage additives and to improvements in the ability of the animal to obtain nutrients from feeds through the addition of enzymes to feeds and modification of rumen microbes through genetic engineering.

scholarly journals Genetic engineering of marine cyanophages reveals integration but not lysogeny in T7-like cyanophages

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dror Shitrit ◽  
Thomas Hackl ◽  
Raphael Laurenceau ◽  
Nicolas Raho ◽  
Michael C. G. Carlson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Attachment Site ◽  
Marine Cyanobacteria ◽  
Engineering System ◽  
Pcr Screening ◽  
Photosynthetic Organisms ◽  
Infection Dynamics ◽  
Attachment Sites ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractMarine cyanobacteria of the genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus are the most abundant photosynthetic organisms on earth, spanning vast regions of the oceans and contributing significantly to global primary production. Their viruses (cyanophages) greatly influence cyanobacterial ecology and evolution. Although many cyanophage genomes have been sequenced, insight into the functional role of cyanophage genes is limited by the lack of a cyanophage genetic engineering system. Here, we describe a simple, generalizable method for genetic engineering of cyanophages from multiple families, that we named REEP for REcombination, Enrichment and PCR screening. This method enables direct investigation of key cyanophage genes, and its simplicity makes it adaptable to other ecologically relevant host-virus systems. T7-like cyanophages often carry integrase genes and attachment sites, yet exhibit lytic infection dynamics. Here, using REEP, we investigated their ability to integrate and maintain a lysogenic life cycle. We found that these cyanophages integrate into the host genome and that the integrase and attachment site are required for integration. However, stable lysogens did not form. The frequency of integration was found to be low in both lab cultures and the oceans. These findings suggest that T7-like cyanophage integration is transient and is not part of a classical lysogenic cycle.

scholarly journals Da li postoji gen za ljudski duh? Analiza osnovnih motiva i simbolike u filmu Gataka

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 505
Author(s):  
Mladen Stajić
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Gene Modification ◽  
Religious Symbolism ◽  
The World

Gattaca (1997) represents an artistic view of a dystopian future in which the genetic engineering of humans is commonplace. Through the analysis of the ways in which motifs of discrimination and disability are used in this film, wider societal implications of the development of science and the consideration of humanity in western culture are considered. The paper discusses the argumentation for the idea that gene modification means espousing the role of the Creator, and seeks answers to the question of what it means to be human in a genetically deterministic world. The issue of new kinds of discrimination in a potential post-racial world is highlighted, and the possibility of achieving authenticity and the freedom to create one's own identity in a society wherein designed people are the norm is considered. Finally, the ideas and conclusions of numerous authors who dealt with the world of Gattaca are presented, and a new point of view is offered - one which puts the focus on the religious symbolism in the film, a surprisingly neglected motif in previous analyses.

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