Thursday, April 2, 2020
The Microprocessor in the Field of Biology
The Microprocessor in the Field of BiologyBiologists, for many years, have worked on theories about the future of fields such as wildlife management, botany, and other biological endeavors. But these areas, as well as the other life sciences, are also developing a different technology than in the past. This technology is the microprocessor and, in this article, we will examine what this new technology means for the fields of biology and other life sciences.Microprocessors, as we mentioned before, play a vital role in almost all of the other life sciences. This is true for the most part, but they also play a key role in the field of biotechnology. For example, bacteria can be genetically altered by introducing a tiny piece of DNA into their genome to allow the DNA to become present in the new cells. In the case of the bacterium E. coli, this can be done by introducing a foreign DNA fragment from the bacteria to the cell to grow, in essence, by inserting DNA into the cell.The success o f the application E. coli is far from being a one-time event; it will continue to produce millions of new bacteria by introducing a tiny fragment of DNA into each cell that it inhabits. This microprocessor growth is essentially a technique that will be widely used in the field of genetics and other fields of science, as we will explore below.It is interesting to note that this application was developed from one being developed by a man who, interestingly enough, was not a biologist. In fact, the application was based on an electron microscope that was developed by a physicist named Charles Watson, who was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School at the time. When the first applications were being developed, the only one of these methods that could produce viable results was this one. When it was finally determined that this was the only technique capable of producing viable results, Biotech Industry Corporation (BIC) was founded to commercialize the use of this technique.It is inter esting to note that this company came into existence as a result of a New York Scientific Society for Biology meeting. During this meeting, a joint effort was started between BIC and Biodesign (now Bionic), two companies that are not known for developing the next generation of biotechnological equipment, but were able to find a common interest in the field of biotechnology. Thus, when the opportunity arose for the two companies to get together and work on a research project to produce their own tools for this new field, it was an easy decision to do so.By 1985, BIC and Biodesign developed technology that was used by two separate organizations - the University of Virginia and the Smithsonian Institution - in developing systems that allow two separate systems to communicate. This type of technology is necessary to both support and facilitate the development of both new and existing databases for biology and the other science areas. These two organizations were able to make this develo pment happen, largely, because of the efforts of the various groups of scientists that were involved in the project.The New York City based companies were able to take this new and improved microprocessor technology and, after nearly two decades of development, developed the first programmable systems for the field of biology. Now, we can see a new age in fields such as biology as this new technology becomes more widespread.
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