Research and Reviews : A Journal of Biotechnology
Volume 11, Issue 2 (2021)
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The Future of Biotechnology: Revisiting the Spontaneous Generation of Living Organisms
Abstract: The emergence of life as a system of thermodynamically stable components capable of self-replication has been elucidated since Aristotle´s “Spontaneous Generation”. This chemical evolution begat primordial cells which then underwent evolutionary change, diversity and evolution stability at the ecological level; extinction for our planet is not foreseable in the near future. Life, single or pluri-cellular, can theoretically emerge from chemistry even nowadays but are less probable from the spontaneous assembly …
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Industrial Applications of Radiation
Abstract: In the past 50 years, radiation has found ever increasing use in medicine, industry, archeology, and agriculture. Such applications depend on either the unique characteristics of radioisotopes or the radiation produced by various nuclear and atomic devices. The ingenuity of nuclear technology applications developed over the past half century is extraordinary. Since radiation touches every aspect of our lives, it is in fact, responsible for our lives; it is essential …
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Pattern of Cancer in Punjab (Cancer Capital of India)
Abstract: The problems of the nature and possible treatment of malignant disease are studied in many laboratories and results are published in different journals. It is difficult for any worker to keep in touch with all the published work. Excellent summaries of papers were published for many years in the Cancer Review, the publication of which was unfortunately suspended about ten years ago. Since then abstracts have been available in the …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Biotechnology · Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2021 · pp. 4–11 Read article