NewBiology

Angiosperms, the Flowering Plants have a complex life cycle, that comprises of a Sporophyte generation (2N) as the major part of the life and a reduced Gametophyte generation (N), that is completely dependent upon the Sporophyte. The episode elaborates various sexual reproductive parts, their scientific terminologies, events in sexual reproduction, leading to the conversion of ovules into seeds and the ovary into fruits.  

'Biotechnology is feeding the world, treating the world and fueling the world'. It is not an exaggerated statement but a reality of present and would be felt by everyone in times to come.    Biotechnology is a new age science, where biology is applied to enhance the life of human beings by way of producing food, beverages, medicines, diagnostics, environment cleansing and plenty of other ways. The episode describes the definition of biotechnology and the difference between new and old biotechnology with certain examples for better understanding.

This small podcast shall make you realize the importance of appreciating all the small and big things in our life. Once they are lost or are no more with us, we keep missing them, no amount of regret or penance can get them back. Appreciate always... Acknowledge always... for a blissful living.

Human Genome Project (HGP) was an ambitious project started in 1990 by US Department of Energy and National institute of Health. The project completed in 2005, and the analysis part is still continuing. Once it is thoroughly worked out and adopted it shall have far reaching implications from  Early Diagnosis of Disease, Proactive Medicine instead of Reactive Medicine, Pharmacogenomics or more precisely Custom drugs and Individualized Medicine, etc. to name a few.  

Antibiotics are specific secondary products/ metabolites of microbial metabolism. These are produced by one group of microorganisms and are active against another group of microorganisms. All antibiotics have two properties in common, one they are selective in their action, that means one type of microorganisms are killed by a particular antibiotic, while they may not be affected by another antibiotic. Second, they are active in very minute concentrations. Antibiotic resistance is fast spreading through out the world, several reasons have been attributed to it. The main factors however, are unwanted, over use in case of viral infections, under use in case of bacterial infections, non medical uses in animal husbandary, poultry industry and agricultural. The concern is so high that it is increasingly being showcased as the world of medicine might be heading towards the Pre-antibiotic era, when we would have no effective arms and ammunition in the form of antibiotics that could treat life threatening infectious diseases.