Biotech_Facts

Biotech careers: Choosing biotechnology as a career can be the best option for life science job aspirants to build a better career in the future. Biotechnology can additionally grow your career as well as your vision towards your goal. If you are a job aspirant in the life science field, you normally search for laboratory and academic careers, which are quite disappointing nowadays becaus e of the tough exams like NET and GATE. After even qualifying the exam it is getting difficult to get a fellowship in a recognized university or in a research center for further growth in your career. From my experiences, I would recommend shifting your go al towards com mercial division like the pharmaceuticals , agricultural products, animal farming, probiotics, diary, transgenic crops , transgenic animals, etc. Practical experiences matter a lot rather than your qualification and theoretica l knowledge. You might have heard about the industrial biotechnology and experimental biotechnology that is...

Odilorhabdins: Odilorhabdins , or ODLs, a new class of antibiotics which disrupts protein synthesis are produced by symbiotic bacteria  Xenorhabdus Nematophilia , found in soil-dwelling nematode worms that colonize insects for food. The bacteria  Xenorhabdus Nematophilia  actually helps to kill the insect and, importantly, secrete the antibiotic to keep competating the other bacteria away. Till now, these nematode-associated bacteria and the antibiotics they make have been largely understudied. To identify the antibiotic property present in the  xenorhabdus  bacteria, researchers screened 80 cultured strains of the bacteria & isolated the active compounds showing properties of antibiotics, studied their chemical structures and engineered more potent derivatives. ODLs mainly act on the ribosome, which is the molecular machine of individual cells that makes the proteins it needs to function of bacterial cells. Like many clinically useful antibiotics, O...