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For the 9th consecutive year, via the 2015 Jose G. Burgos, Jr Awards for Biotech Journalism, published news and feature stories on the numerous benefits of biotechnology to the common Filipino have been recognized again last November 25, 2015 at Kalipayan Beach Resort in Dasmariñas City, Cavite.

Organized by J. Burgos Media Services, Inc. and Biotechnology for Life Media and Advocacy Resource Center, the Jose G. Burgos Jr. Awards was one of the main highlights of this year’s National Biotechnology Week (NBW) hosted by Department of Science and Technology (DOST). The said awards aim to push the frontiers of science by popularizing biotech stories, thus making people more aware of this scientific discipline.

 

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Learning about biotechnology can be fun and exciting.  This was demonstrated in the recent seminar held at SM Dasmariñas Event Center, Cavite as part of the celebration of the National Biotechnology Week 2015 spearheaded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

The seminar, entitled “Understanding Biotechnology Seminar-Workshop for High School and Elementary Students,” featured activities that engaged the students from Maquiling School, Incorporated, Christian School International, University of the Philippines Rural High School, De La Salle Lipa, Cavite State University, and B. N. Calara Elementary and High School.

 

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Monitoring and assessment of water quality in Batangas Province has been given a boost with the launching of the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) SENTRY, or Sensing Environmental  Parameters through Telemetry, during the celebration of DOST IV-A’s  52nd anniversary in Mataasnakahoy, Batangas last November 20, 2015.

SENTRY is a system which deploys devices for real-time automated data acquisition to help avoid fish kill and other adverse effects of poor water quality. These devices are sensors which come in the form of catamaran-type buoys.  To be gathered are data on the water’s acidity, turbidity, and total suspended solids or particles larger than two microns