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Biotech AI Startup Unlearn Adds $15 Million and OpenAI CTO to Board

Unlearn.AI, which has built a machine learning platform that creates “digital twin” profiles of patients in clinical trials, has raised $15 million to expand partnerships and accelerate regulatory approval, the company told Reuters on Tuesday. The investment from Radical Ventures and Wittington Ventures valued the startup at $265 million, the company said. Mira Murati, chief […]

Pros and Cons of Biotechnology in Agriculture

Agricultural biotechnology uses various tools, including conventional breeding techniques, that adjust parts of organisms or living organisms to modify or make products and animals and improve plants and grow microorganisms for distinguishing agricultural uses.  The tools of genetic engineering are included in modern biotechnology, while its developments contain genetically modified plants and animals, cell therapies, […]

Is Biotechnology Good or Bad for Agriculture?

The past couple of decades witnessed an emergence of technological developments and the modernization of almost all fields of modern societies, and food production is no exception. The fusion between technology and biology birthed a new concept, Biotechnology, which throughout time became a tool to increase food production as the human population globally jeopardizes food security. […]

What are Examples of Modern Biotechnology?

With time, humans have worked thoroughly on improving technologies, especially modern ones. Modern biotechnologies worked on making valuable products from whole organisms or parts of organisms, such as cells, tissues, molecules, and organs.    Developments in biotechnology contain genetically modified plants and animals, cell therapies, and nanotechnology.   These products are not in everyday use but may […]

Bharat Biotech Says No Impact of Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Supply Chains

Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech said on Friday the Russia-Ukraine conflict had not impacted the company’s supply chains so far. Unlike several Western companies including McDonald’s, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Starbucks that have stopped sales or operations in Russia, no Indian company has publicly withdrawn from the region. A few Indian pharmaceutical companies have a presence […]

Why BioTech is important

Biotechnology has many advantages including helping improve food quality, quantity, and processing, as well as also has having functions in manufacturing, where simple cells and proteins can be manipulated to produce chemicals. The source of biotechnology comes from the fact that technology aims to create tools to empower humans, aiming to change humans themselves to […]

What is the difference between Biotech and Pharma?

The merger between medicine and technology has been on the rise for quite some time, and exponential development in integrating the digital world with the medical one has grown on various frontiers. So, what is the difference between Biotech and Pharma? Biotechnology companies focus on producing medicine originated from living organisms, while pharmaceutical medications are […]

Humanity and produce: The Future of Biotechnology

We humans are curious creatures. If we weren’t we would still be living in caves, if living at all. It is in our nature to pursue answers about the cosmos, why things are the way they are, how they came to be, and endlessly more complex questions.   Among the most baffling questions that keep scientists awake at night is ‘what is life’. The future of biotechnology may hold the answer to […]

Biotechnology in Food: How do they work together?

Technology entered our lives for almost two decades now, changing the tiniest details from the way we live, work, think and even eat as biotechnology in food shapes our diets, health, and our understanding of farming. Agriculture is the main element in producing the food we consume, and it has been developing throughout the decades […]

Agricultural biotechnology and future food security

Food security is the one thing at the center of societal stability. Our entire species would not be where it is now if not for past advancements in food production that allowed societies to shift their attention to other aspects of life like art, technology, and education. In our world with a population of around […]