Biotechnology is the application of any technology to biological systems and living organisms or derivatives to develop or make useful products for specific use. Biotechnology and human civilisation ...

Biotechnology is transforming natural health products. Advanced methods improve plant extract purity and potency. This ...

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Salako, said the adoption of modern biotechnology is critical to achieving food security, job creation and eradication of extreme poverty in the ...

The modern biotechnology industry dawned in the 1970s, thanks to new techniques using recombinant DNA to manufacture substances such as human growth hormone and insulin. Fast forward to 2001, when the ...

The Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) is an open discussion forum with six Chapters in Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana and Burkina Faso. OFAB - Ghana is a ...

Erie Tamale is Environmental Affairs Officer and Ulrika Nilsson is Associate Public Information Officer at the Biosafety Unit in the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal. 1 ...

Using biological agents as weapons is illegal, but an organism that scientists lawfully use for genuine research could be repurposed for an attack. Therefore, what is banned depends on what an actor ...

The Director General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba has advised Nigerians to embrace the application of modern biotechnology to ensure food sufficiency in the country.

The National Biosafety Management Agency, NBMA, yesterday, said it has commenced the drafting of rules and guidelines for the regulation of modern biotechnology practices and products in the country, ...