Essays on Biotechnology

In this dissertation, to sense glucose levels in individuals, a number of design technologies have existed. The main object is to design a highly selective and sensitive device for glucose sensing. With the prime focus on a blood glucose sensor and work did so far…

Glucose monitoring is a technology that has been used to monitor diabetes for the last thirty years. There has been evolution of glucose, started with glucose measuring methods that used enzymes to determine the content. Nowadays there is plenty of glucose monitoring devices that give…

Erythrosine (disodium salt of tetra iodofluorescein) an artificial red dye (cherry-pink) vastly used in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic colouring made from coal tar (Combes and Haveland-Smith, 1982). According to the World Health Organization iodine may be affect thyroid which leads to thyroid tumors. Erythrosine gives…

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are long, cylindrical strands of pure carbon molecules. Some of the characteristics that make CNTs so special is the fact that they are stronger than steel but is only 1/6th the weight, approximately 0. 43nm in diameter and conduct electricity better than…

SOL-Gel Processing Dong et al describes a method to synthesize iodine butyl-n-sulfonate amino polysiloxane {(IB-N-SA) PDMS} using poly(4-iodobutoxy) methylsiloxane and guanidine sulfamate. The cotton fabric was then soaked in a bath of (IB-N-SA) PDMS, zirconium oxide chloride, and urea at room temperature for four minutes…

Cell culturing is possibly the most vastly used technique in laboratories and research centres worldwide. With increasingly accurate environments of simple monocultures or complex polycultures being established, advancements within medical research can be made. Mammalian cell culture is enabling progress in areas such as cancer…

Downstream processing refers to the processes that take place after fermentation to recover and purify the product. Following cell culture, recovery is carried out by centrifugation and filtration from which the resulting cell harvest is transferred to the low-productivity purification processes. Purification of biologics involves…

This assignment describes the 2017-18 China Vaccine scandal in the sequence of events occurred, simultaneously showing the headlines reported and issues articled by various news lines in the process. In July 2018, China experienced its worst public health crisis in years as stated in a…

In 2004, Litovsky et. al. produced a scientific paper where they were determining the advantages of bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) in adults and children, specifically measuring the level of sound localization and speech comprehensibility in noise. This article is located in the journal ‘The archine…

Siliconeo The implantable section of the cochlear implant is covered with silicone. This includes the transmitter coil, the electrodes (also with platinum contacts), the cochleostomy area, and a silicone cable is situated in the middle ear. Through the polymerization of silicon and oxygen atoms, silicone…