Budding Biotechnologist

FIELD VISIT REPORT Friday, 29th Nov.2019:The One-day Educational Visit as a part of curriculum of TYBSc(Biotechnology)to ACTREC,Kharghar was planned and successfully executed.The selected 15 students of Vartak College,Vasai alongwith Prof.Mrs.Kanika Bhargava were the part of ACTREC’s 17th Open Day.The session began at 10:00 am by an introductory presentation on History of Tata Memorial Centres for Cancer and about cancer progression in brief by Dr.Pradnya Kowtal.Poster Display highlighting cancer research,diagnosis,treatment and prevention were also a part of this session.Ms.Megha Malhotra,a PhD student was the appointed volunteer for the complete tour.The first visit was to Microbiology Lab P-115 where the students were introduced to BacT/Alert 3D,a equipment employing BH infusion media and pH change indicators to detect presence of micro-organisms in given blood sample with couple of hours! Further,the next demo was of Serum Protein Electrophoresis,Lab PS-117, involoving HY...

HELLO! Welcome to BUDDING BIOTECHNOLOGIST! As a student myself and seeing many of my juniors confused after opting BSc in Biotechnology after their 12th,I felt the need to blog on this topic and try my best to clear the doubts of both my mind n all biotechnology students. Okay,to begin- THE MEANING BIOTECHNOLOGY involves the exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes, especially the genetic manipulation of microorganisms for the production of antibiotics, hormones, etc. IN SIMPLE WORDS, it is a biological science concerned with micro-organisms,their genomes and its application in production of useful products,particularly medicinal products. BIOTECH- is an interdisciplinary field including- BIOTECHNOLOGY,GENETICS,PLANT AND ANIMAL TISSUE CULTURE,IMMUNOLOGY,BIOINFOMATICS,BIOCHEMISTRY,MOLECULAR BIOLOGY,EMBRYOLOGY,MICROBIOLOGY etc most of which,are covered as topics in our BSc syllabus prescribed by the Mumbai University. STUDIES- After y...