My Major (Appiled Biotech )

This topic was created in the Aquarius forum by cappysweetie on Tuesday, July 4, 2006 and has 11 replies.

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Happy 4th Everyone 🙂

The fireworks are suppose to start in about 1.5 hours, so instead of indulging in food and beverage ... I'll engage myself in my field of study 🙂

My interest in biotechnology keeps expanding far beyond the realms of academia! It the manipulation of organisms to do practical things -- such as phytoremediation, which is the treatment of environmental problems through the use of plants. *** I'm still considering on doing my thesis on this type of bioremdiation ***

When I discovered that biotechnology was connected to nanotechnology, then I became forever intrigued. Nanotechnology manipulates material on the nanoscale.Also, NASA nanotech (well,molecular nanotechnology) research group are exploring ways that nanos can be used to advance the exploration and human habitation of space (YES!!!). IBM is doing pathbreaking research to revolutionize computing -- storing one bit in a few atoms no longer seems impossible, and molecular switches will be used instead of optical lithography.

OOOOPS! I gave way too much info ... this stuff really gets me going 😉

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Really!!!! Prime —?? There's an internship program? OMG, I had no idea. Research specialist are still developing nanotechnogy as a way of being using when intergrated in biotech.

OOOO I'll check Foresight out 😉 However, I probably wouldn't qualify until my the summer of my senior year .....

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Hey, did I tell you I have an interest in epidemiolgy too -- I only need my masters to qualify an epidemiolgist ^_^.

It's so interseting how nanotechnolgy works in some many different ways. They are using them with the development of new drugs for cancer treatment -- I think beta blockers will be intergrated with nanos to stop the increase of cancer cells that producing "bad" protien ....

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WOW, I can receive two newsletters now on nanos!!! Thank you so mcuh Prime, for thinking of me 😄

I didn't response sooner because I have my POL 1510 class three days a week .....

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Hey Prime,

I have a really cool professor it doesn't seem like it's going to be that bad. They only thing that may bet alittle over bearing is that five projects we have to do. We must pass all five projects in order to pass the class ....

AHHHH!!!!!!! OH WHAT FUN ****can you detect my sarcasm? ****