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Friday, 29 January 2010 02:05 |
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Activities for this year’s celebration of the National Biotechnology Week would confirm that biotechnology is not only for scientists, policymakers, and farmers. Biotech, organizers assure, has something to offer to everyone.The annual event adopted the theme “Bioteknolohiya para sa Kalikasan, Kalusugan. Kagandahan, Kabuhayan, at Kaunlaran,” which was held November 22-29, 2009 at the Nido Fortified Science Discovery Center in SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City.
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Friday, 29 January 2010 02:01 |
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Department of Science and Technology Secretary Estrella F. Alabastro wears her advocacy especially during proud moments when the close-knit science community stirs up from its undeserved staid reputation. Alabastro was sunny in a silk gown topped with plaid, hand-woven silk bolero dyed with talisay leaves and young coconut husk at the recent National Science and Technology Week opening rites held at the Manila Hotel.
The outfit’s fabric was hand-woven from breeds of Philippine silkworm varieties. Silk throwing or plying and twisting along with dye extraction were also done using technologies developed by experts at DOST’s Philippine Textile Research Institute. Dyes extracted from talisay leaves were used for the black warp and weft, and young coconut husk for the pink weft.
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Friday, 29 January 2010 02:04 |
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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is calling the attention of interested researchers, scientists and professors for the 2010 and 2011 Call for Proposals under the Manila Economic and Cultural Office - Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office (MECOTECO) S&T Cooperation. Under the call for proposals, Filipino proponents will have the opportunity to work with their Taiwanese counterparts with funding support from DOST and NSC, respectively. The call for proposal for 2010 is from October to 11 December 2009. Implementation will be on August 2010. Meanwhile, the 2011call for proposals will begin August 2010 and for implementation in January 2011.
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Friday, 29 January 2010 02:00 |
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The Philippine land mass is moving towards mainland Asia at approximately seven centimeter per year, latest geophysics researches conducted reveal.This development was disclosed publicly for the first time by Department of Science and Technology Undersecretary Graciano P. Yumul Jr. during the 2009 Earth Sciences International Conference at the Heritage Hotel August 27.
But the calculated convergence of the archipelago to continental Asia won’t happen soon. “In 50 million years, the Philippines will be reconnected to mainland Asia because of the tectonic movements,” explains Usec Yumul, a leading Filipino authority in geology.
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