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BIOLIFE NEWS SERVICE
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[Title] => Functional food helps prevent disease
[Summary] => After all that holiday binging (there’s still New Year and Chinese New Year, of course), it’s time for our yearly New Year’s Resolution, on top of which is probably the big fat promise to lose weight (as in New Years past).
[DatePublished] => 2015-12-28 09:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1096607
[AuthorName] => Ching M. Alano
[SectionName] => Health And Family
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[Title] => Zambo scientists push coco ethanol production
[Summary] => Scientists at the Zamboanga Research Center (ZRC) of the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) are working on a barangay-based ethanol production project using coconut inflorescence sap.
[DatePublished] => 2012-09-02 00:00:00
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[Title] => Alcala backs natural ingredients industry
[Summary] => Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala backs the natural ingredients industry, saying it is high time for Filipino farmers to cash in on the $400-billion global market.
[DatePublished] => 2012-08-19 00:00:00
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[Title] => DA praised for research on biotech crops
[Summary] => The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) lauds the Department of Agriculture (DA) for intensifying research on biotech crops.
[DatePublished] => 2012-02-19 00:00:00
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[Title] => Use of GM crops likely to increase - BPI
[Summary] => The number of genetically-modified (GM) crops with stacked traits will increase in time as more farmers opt for them.
[DatePublished] => 2012-02-05 00:00:00
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[Title] => Scientists: Bt toxins can be used for pest control
[Summary] => A group of German scientists have found that toxins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) can be used for pest control, a Manila-based online science news agency said.
[DatePublished] => 2011-11-17 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1804518
[AuthorName] => Ghio Ong
[SectionName] => Science and Environment
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[Title] => DA holds 4th Nat'l Biotechnology Wk
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) will lead the celebration of the 4th National Biotechnology Week on Nov.
[DatePublished] => 2008-11-23 00:00:00
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[Title] => Abaca research project on
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Fiber Industry Development Authority, University of the Philippines’ Institute of Plant Breeding and some Filipino scientists, is conducting studies on the production of virus-resistant abaca plants to increase fiber production in the country.
[DatePublished] => 2008-08-17 00:00:00
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[Title] => Contract growers venture with biotech firm
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VALENCIA, Negros Oriental  Biotechnology has come all the way to this remote town, providing a big boost to the town’s agricultural sector with a timely intervention from the government in partnership with the private sector.
For starters, Valencia Con-tract Growers Association, headed by Florante Vicuna has agreed to venture with a bio-tech firm called Secura for the production of natural ingre-dients extracted from malung-gay, also known as kalamung-gay to the local farmers.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => Scientists eye rice variety resistant to bacterial blight
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With the government aiming to make the country self sufficient in rice, government scientists have been given the green light to start another project to come up with improved hybrid rice parental lines resistant to Bacterial Blight.
All eyes are now on Dr. Joan Marie S. Agarcio, a geneticist and molecular biologist from the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) as far as the project is concerned.
[DatePublished] => 2007-02-25 00:00:00
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