Question

can anybody suggest me some good theme for my college newsletter or magazine...something related to biotechnology...i am in charge and i haven't come up with a single idea...please guys i badly need this...

Answer 1

@aaronq @Frostbite @petiteme @sarah786 @anybodywhoknowsaboutbiology

Answer 2

@karatechopper @GTXMUQSIT

Answer 3

@shrutipande9 .. What kinda theme ?? no idea :(

Answer 4

@shrutipande9 plz explain a little what type of theme?

Answer 5

sure....umm..last year we had picked up the theme green biotechnology..then we collected many articles related to that and published a magazine...a year before that it was about biorhythms..so something like this...

Answer 6

You can use Global warming, Pollution (air,water,noise pollution etc), Evolution, and also extinction of animals, or power generation from bio mass etc. @shrutipande9

Answer 7

oooo....power generation seems a cool one..:D
thanks..@gtxmuqsit

Answer 8

@shrutipande9 welcome :)

Answer 9

also if u could come up with so something else...please do write it here...
also i was thinking a topic like from organism to the core....like how d history of scientific went deeper by studying organism and then going deeper and deeper and now to the core which is DNA...wat do u say?

Answer 10

*scientific research

Answer 11

or is it complicated..:/

Answer 12

hmmm well genetic engineering you can use it for your theme like PCR advantages, How genes tell ancestory etc it's such a vast subject :P

Answer 13

It's complicated a bit needs a lot of time but it's very good choice

Answer 14

i want something really vast...so people could write articles about it...

Answer 15

yeah then genetic engineering is what you can choose :)

Answer 16

ahh..yep...i have noted it down...i have 2 give atleast 2-3 topics...so then me and my professors could come down to 1..thanks again:D

Answer 17

ok :)

Answer 18

PCR.

Answer 19

yeah @abb0t PCR :) :P polymerase chain reaction :P

Answer 20

Phenology is a hot topic these days - relating climate and environmental data to ecological data. Basically studying the biologic effects of climate change.

Answer 21

Not hotter than PCR, imo.

Answer 22

What about designer proteins based on predictive models from chemical shifts?

Answer 23

I personally consider it hot due the fact I read sooo many papers about this and I've not yet found a universal model.

Answer 24

ummmm...srry but i dint quite get u...:/can u explain?

Answer 25

imagine that we could predict a proteins structure and thereby it's function alone from knowing it's primary sequence. Well, this is what some are trying, but instead of looking at the sequence it self, they look at the NMR chemical shift. From these we can calculate thermodynamical data (as you wrote to me about) like structural order and disorder.

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wooaahhh...i got u in d first...this seems cool...:D but i kinda lost u in d middle...wats NMR chemical shift?

Answer 27

Never heard of NMR? Nuclear Magnetic Resonance?

Answer 28

ahhh yes yes...i have...

Answer 29

Good well, we can do the same for proteins and the chemical shifts, which compares the frequency of the sample proton to the frequency of the reference compound.
The frequency is corresponding from the difference in energy. You can deduce it your self using the energy of a magnetic dipole against am external magnetic field with a certain strength.
Is it just me or is this no longer biology? (please don't ban me :( )

Answer 30

ummm...okaaayyyy....i am kind of getting it...it sounds really cool....but i guess i need to read a lil more about it....i hope it doesnt move towards chemistry though...

Answer 31

Well... I think I'm going disappoint you then. :/

Answer 32

no...its really good...ill read a lil more about this though...i m kind of new in this..so...

Answer 33

now a days Stem cell research is a good theme. now researchers find that stem cell is used in cancer therapy,to develope organgs etc

Answer 34

thanks muneefa..:D

Answer 35

welcome shruthi....so do you select any theme????????

Answer 36

i am actually making a list of 4-5 themes..and then my professor is going to choose from those...so just preparing my list..:D

Answer 37

All the best then............

Answer 38

thanks..:)

Answer 39

recombinant DNA -> genetic engineering -> gene therapy -> artificial life

Answer 40

thanks nin..:)

Answer 41

I gave you a whole course, not just one theme
this is all about gene sequencing technology, which gave rise to biotechnology

Answer 42

yep..so true...i wanted such topics which can extended a lot....thank u..:)