Month: November 2018

Mechanism explains why damaged DNA amass in ALS neurons

A mechanism that leads to the accumulation of damaged DNA in neurons that characterize amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A team of neurodegenerative disease researchers recognizes. ALS is a neurodegenerative disease signalized by the selective and progressive death of upper and lower motor neurons. This leads to ongoing muscle weakness, and death of the patient usually […]
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Biotech in Pakistan reached an all-time high in 2017

According to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), Pakistan has achieved a 96 percent adoption rate of Bt cotton, or 3 million hectares of the national total area planted to cotton which was 3.11 million hectares. Around 725,000 smallholder cotton farmers in Pakistan planted and benefitted from Bt cotton in 2017. It […]
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Maize production increases 3 times on hybrid seeds

Hybrid technology has swell maize production by more than three times since it begins for the crop sowing way back in the 1990s, a top official from the private sector said. The maize crop in Pakistan presents a phenomenal success story, spanning over the past 20 years, spokesman of Crop Life Pakistan, said a part […]
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Sino-Pak conference on cotton from 26th

‘Innovation in Cotton and Biotechnology’ a two-day Sino-Pak international conference will start on November 26 at Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA). Institute of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology in collaboration with Biotechnology Research Institute China, Bahauddin Zakariya University and Punjab government would organize the conference. MNSUA would welcome scientists from China, USA, Iran, Uzbekistan, […]
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Sino-Pak hybrid rice research center opened in China

University of Karachi’s (KU) International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) in joint effort with the China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI) recently inaugurated SINO-Pak Hybrid Rice Research Center (SPHRRC) in China. Senior professor of (ICCBS), Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, former chairman higher education commission and federal minister for science and technology, and Dr. Peisong […]
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