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The challenge of biotechnology, including scientific and / or technology, is d Esterre fear generates social, fed by the media. So at least consider the Nobel Prize Diesenhoffer Johan; former Health Minister Bernat Soria ; Josep Castells, Luis Antonio González (Universidad de La Laguna) and L uis Pons Puiggros - (Polytechnic University of Catalonia), which, moderated by Professor of Science Journalism at the University Carlos III Carlos Elias opened the second day today on the campus of Excellence 2009 .
Biotechnology uses living matter, research (and adjust if necessary) to generate products Biotechnology: from clean fuels to tougher food, cheap and nutritious, and new medicines and medical treatments .
Diesenhoffer To Johan the last century focused on the deconstruction of the life to analyze and learn more about it. The century is the era of construction, the testing we've profudizado knowledge of life, and "most shows that we can understand a living organism is to be able to build one. That is the goal of today's biotechnology. "
The Nobel believes, in the case of biotech foods, do not be afraid because man since the dawn of agriculture, has engineered crop varieties choosing, giving more or less water or fertilizers etc. "GM is just a shortcut compared to traditional methods." For this scientist to famine and mitigated the possibility of resistant crops, cheaper and more nutritious, the debate becomes meaningless.
"We are light years away from the image of Frankenstein but creating life from inert matter must begin to discuss it", added Diesenhoffer. This debate should analyze what the outcome "and where we stand." is something which, in its view, should already be on the table, and time is necessary for society to be formed on the subject. (This is where notes the importance of the media no longer offer an image "in most cases negative" about the science.) In addition to the ethical and scientific debate the formation society and the need for national policy or constructive information, the expert considers vital to regulate the activity companies and monitored to "ensure the rights and quality of life for all and not just its shareholders. "
Biotechnology has been a quantum leap in a short time. "When we started the adventure of the human genome was a huge undertaking. Today we can think of knowing the genomes of individuals routinely. Your doctor can tell how each patient will react according to which medication. This is made possible by biotechnology. I optimistic: I have much more hope that fear, "he said.
Josep Castells established two types of challenges for biotechnology: the scientists on the one hand and the applicability of the findings in the form of useful products other." Wanted massive applicability on different areas to achieve sustainable production in all sectors without compromising on product quality.
Castells and Bernat Soria have opted for regulation and ethics, but not by fear. In this sense, the former health minister Bernat Soria says that the reluctance to biohazardous advances are nothing more than the ancestral fear of technology, any progress. "When technology is not bad nor good. What is its use, misuse or abuse. A life-saving scalpel the surgeon's hands and into the hands of the murderer removes ." The media and advertising (Bernat Soria also disapproves of the information policy in this area) "speak of nature as something positive and of the technological and negative. HOWEVER natural foods may have toxins to which we have no antidote. A regulated technology secular ethics and everyone helps everyone live better. can afford to cure or alleviate hunger in the world. There are thousands of diseases that no biomedical treatment and can help us (and also more expensive) for many patients may be your only chance, I do not reject it or to be prohibited Serles.
Puiggros
Luis Pons (Universidad Politecnica Catalunya) opted for progress and integration of disciplines as the key to the future. A chemical gets great advances in medicine and a doctor of chemistry. Technological advances in one area affect others. It is necessary that all countries have access to such developments. On the other hand, Pons called for "transparency" to companies in the sector biotechnology and agreed on the need to improve citizen awareness on these issues "because fear can not make us lose hope a better life for thousands and millions of people. "
Luis Antonio González (Universidad de La Laguna), specializes in the application of biotechnology to agriculture, incision in the latter." Soon we able to design power plants for safe, strong, resistant to pests and plantable bordering deserts. The problem for marketing in the European case is a very strict rules. The challenge is to convince the safety of these foods, which can be great allies in the fight against famine (it is investigating a cereal that incorporates proteins, advanced, which needs little water and is highly resistant to extreme weather conditions).
The challenge of biotechnology, including scientific and / or technology, is d Esterre fear generates social, fed by the media. So at least consider the Nobel Prize Diesenhoffer Johan; former Health Minister Bernat Soria ; Josep Castells, Luis Antonio González (Universidad de La Laguna) and L uis Pons Puiggros - (Polytechnic University of Catalonia), which, moderated by Professor of Science Journalism at the University Carlos III Carlos Elias opened the second day today on the campus of Excellence 2009 .
Biotechnology uses living matter, research (and adjust if necessary) to generate products Biotechnology: from clean fuels to tougher food, cheap and nutritious, and new medicines and medical treatments .
Diesenhoffer To Johan the last century focused on the deconstruction of the life to analyze and learn more about it. The century is the era of construction, the testing we've profudizado knowledge of life, and "most shows that we can understand a living organism is to be able to build one. That is the goal of today's biotechnology. "
The Nobel believes, in the case of biotech foods, do not be afraid because man since the dawn of agriculture, has engineered crop varieties choosing, giving more or less water or fertilizers etc. "GM is just a shortcut compared to traditional methods." For this scientist to famine and mitigated the possibility of resistant crops, cheaper and more nutritious, the debate becomes meaningless.
"We are light years away from the image of Frankenstein but creating life from inert matter must begin to discuss it", added Diesenhoffer. This debate should analyze what the outcome "and where we stand." is something which, in its view, should already be on the table, and time is necessary for society to be formed on the subject. (This is where notes the importance of the media no longer offer an image "in most cases negative" about the science.) In addition to the ethical and scientific debate the formation society and the need for national policy or constructive information, the expert considers vital to regulate the activity companies and monitored to "ensure the rights and quality of life for all and not just its shareholders. "
Biotechnology has been a quantum leap in a short time. "When we started the adventure of the human genome was a huge undertaking. Today we can think of knowing the genomes of individuals routinely. Your doctor can tell how each patient will react according to which medication. This is made possible by biotechnology. I optimistic: I have much more hope that fear, "he said.
Josep Castells established two types of challenges for biotechnology: the scientists on the one hand and the applicability of the findings in the form of useful products other." Wanted massive applicability on different areas to achieve sustainable production in all sectors without compromising on product quality.
Castells and Bernat Soria have opted for regulation and ethics, but not by fear. In this sense, the former health minister Bernat Soria says that the reluctance to biohazardous advances are nothing more than the ancestral fear of technology, any progress. "When technology is not bad nor good. What is its use, misuse or abuse. A life-saving scalpel the surgeon's hands and into the hands of the murderer removes ." The media and advertising (Bernat Soria also disapproves of the information policy in this area) "speak of nature as something positive and of the technological and negative. HOWEVER natural foods may have toxins to which we have no antidote. A regulated technology secular ethics and everyone helps everyone live better. can afford to cure or alleviate hunger in the world. There are thousands of diseases that no biomedical treatment and can help us (and also more expensive) for many patients may be your only chance, I do not reject it or to be prohibited Serles.
Puiggros
Luis Pons (Universidad Politecnica Catalunya) opted for progress and integration of disciplines as the key to the future. A chemical gets great advances in medicine and a doctor of chemistry. Technological advances in one area affect others. It is necessary that all countries have access to such developments. On the other hand, Pons called for "transparency" to companies in the sector biotechnology and agreed on the need to improve citizen awareness on these issues "because fear can not make us lose hope a better life for thousands and millions of people. "
Luis Antonio González (Universidad de La Laguna), specializes in the application of biotechnology to agriculture, incision in the latter." Soon we able to design power plants for safe, strong, resistant to pests and plantable bordering deserts. The problem for marketing in the European case is a very strict rules. The challenge is to convince the safety of these foods, which can be great allies in the fight against famine (it is investigating a cereal that incorporates proteins, advanced, which needs little water and is highly resistant to extreme weather conditions).
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