#Western-Biotech

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[soraka-in-warhammer40k]

I'm always fascinated when someone at the club rants about "how they just invented T'au to cash on them anime weebs", completly oblivious to the time and culture of their creation. So T'au came out first in 2001, and were obviously conceptualized some years prior, which puts them into the late 90s in their original design. This is slowly hitting "the majority of the populance has no relevant internet access whatsoever" levels of "barbaric analog ages".

So imagine where GW sits in the late 90s - its a small studio somewhere in England barely coming to touch with the first elements of the internet, with the most dominant medium being television which... is not really about "exotic" shows from the other end of the world? Those get ported over when they have proven to be a hit in their own country mostly.

And without the internet as we know it today, the anime community just... did not exist. You have to understand that the whole concept of online anime culture centred around piracy, fansubs, fanart, and the creation of the term "weeabo" was a mid-to-late 00s thing, and it took almost another decade before "weeb" was somewhat reclaimed and no longer an online-slur.

There was a whole generation that grew up with (often horribly localized) japanese shows on TV (Pokemon, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon) which came over with some delay to their release in Japan. By the time this generation came to congregate into online spaces and form any sort of fan-identity and culture, the T'au and their battlesuits had already been a design over a decade old.

"But wait isn't Gundam from the 70s"? Yes, that is totally correct. However, this is the one glaring mistake people make: you cannot compare modern day media content circulation around the globe to the analog ages. Those of us who remember these barbaric analog times know how it was: you just did not know stuff existed. If it was not in the newspaper or on the telly, it might as well not exist unless you knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy.

Sure, the Internet was slowly becoming a thing that found widespread use, but it would still take a while - not to mention the technical limitations. No streaming episodes. You start the download (if you can find someone who hosted the file of a series you had to know even existed first) somewhere around lunch, to hopefully get something to watch in the afternoon. Oh and also that blocked the household's phone-line and if the download cancelled for whatever reason then it was back to square one. Under such conditions, the online community we know today could simply not exist, as the alternative was importing stuff from the other end of the world for quite the money, or hoping a really shoddy localized VCR-tape ended up at your Blockbuster-equivalent.

Of course there was anime before that time, even those regarded absolute classics in the west, but those mostly achieved that rank over here in retrospective. When in the late 00s people wanted to watch stuff and had the ability to do so they shared what was considered "the classics" first (shared to the best of their ability with one episode cut into 5 parts on youtube with sometimes very questionable subtitles).

So even if we assume there was someone at GW in the 90s who was a total "proto-weeb" and Gudam-fan, there was literally no reason to "make knock-off Gundams" because the miniscule western wargaming audience SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW THE STUFF.

You can't make a marketing ploy to reference something your average consumers have never heard off. If anything, the creation of the T'au as a robotic-centred faction was inevitable: they needed a design that could hold their own in the setting, but Necrons hogged the full-robot niche, Imperials were weird cyborgs, Orks the "madman-scrap-tech", and Nids the "biotech". The only thing left here was "not full robot but also very clean and efficient" - and just like that, the Battlesuits and Drones were born.

It was only in later years when the Internet had come into full swing where they decided to go full-suit with releases such as the Riptide, but if we talk about the OG design of T'au and the first decade? Nothing to do with anime or "fishing for weebs". The fish would not be coming to that spot for almost a decade, and it would take a bit more before their numbers were plentyful enough to make it worth casting a line out.

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The Best News of Last Week - March 13, 2023

🐝 - Did you hear about the honeybee vaccine? It's creating quite the buzz! But seriously, it's a major breakthrough in the fight against American foulbrood and could save billions of bees.

1. Transgender health care is now protected in Minnesota

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed an executive order protecting and supporting access to gender-affirming health care for LGBTQ people in the state, amidst Republican-backed efforts across the country to limit transgender health care. The order upholds the essential values of One Minnesota where all people, including members of the LGBTQIA+ community, are safe, celebrated, and able to live lives full of dignity and joy.

Numerous medical organizations have said that access to gender-affirming care is essential to the health and wellness of gender diverse people, while states like Tennessee, Arizona, Utah, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, South Dakota, and Florida have passed policies or laws restricting transgender health care.

2. First vaccine for honeybees could save billions

The US government has approved the world's first honeybee vaccine to fight against American foulbrood, a bacterial disease that destroys bee colonies vital for crop pollination.

Developed by biotech company Dalan Animal Health, the vaccine integrates some of the foulbrood bacteria into royal jelly, which is then fed to the queen by the worker bees, resulting in the growing bee larvae developing immunity to foulbrood. The vaccine aims to limit the damage caused by the infectious disease, for which there is currently no cure, and promote the development of vaccines for other diseases affecting bees.

3. Teens rescued after days stranded in California snowstorm: "We were already convinced we were going to die"

The recent snowstorms in California have resulted in dangerous conditions for hikers and residents in mountain communities. Two teenage hikers were rescued by the San Bernardino County sheriff's department after getting lost in the mountains for 10 days.

The boys were well-prepared for the hike but were not prepared for the massive amounts of snow that followed. They were lucky to survive, suffering from hypothermia and having to huddle together for three nights to stay warm.

Yosemite National Park has had to be closed indefinitely due to the excessive snowfall.

4. La Niña, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone

The La Nina weather phenomenon, which increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought, has ended after three years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That's usually good news for the United States and other parts of the world, including drought-stricken northeast Africa, scientists said.

The globe is now in what's considered a "neutral" condition.

5. Where there's gender equality, people tend to live longer

Both women and men are likely to live longer when a country makes strides towards gender equality, according to a new global study that authors believe to be the first of its kind.

The study was published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health this week. It adds to a growing body of research showing that advances in women's rights benefit everyone. "Globally, greater gender equality is associated with longer [life expectancy] for both women and men and a widening of the gender gap in [life expectancy]," they conclude.

6. New data shows 1 in 7 cars sold globally is an EV, and combustion engine car sales have decreased by 25% since 2017

Electric vehicles are the key technology to decarbonise road transport, a sector that accounts for 16% of global emissions. Compared with 2020, sales nearly doubled to 6.6��million (a sales share of nearly 9%), bringing the total number of electric cars on the road to 16.5 million.

Sales were highest in China, where they tripled relative to 2020 to 3.3 million after several years of relative stagnation, and in Europe, where they increased by two-thirds year-on-year to 2.3 million. Together, China and Europe accounted for more than 85% of global electric car sales in 2021

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[totalspiffage]

dude tell me more about your scifi solarpunk western shit that sounds dope as hell

Yes! So basically I was reading up on like massive blackouts caused by solar flares and I was like what if there was a habitable planet that had that as a gimmick like there's storms every few days it would be awful to wreck so much equipment so they would have to adjust.

So then I thought biotechnology and biocomputing? It's a very arid place but there's blooms of green and oasises and plenty of fauna. Telepathic bee messaging. It's the new craze.

So why are people even going out of their way to live there? No one lives there currently, it's been long abandoned. Perhaps religious reasons, maybe they're escaping something, or trying to get in on the gold rush of the planet's harvestable resources. Perhaps for historical or scientific interests. Or greed, power, people trying to insinuate this unaffiliated planet back into the control of fascist systems.

Tourists come there to stay in the lush resort station safely out of danger to vacation on the planet to disconnect while the people below get no breaks. Debtors try to lose themselves and debt collectors hunt them. Science tries to make progress while not letting their discoveries be used for evil.

Western theme because of course. Lean into the campy nature of it, into the green, the biotech, the hopeful undertone of a future that isn't bleak. Breathing life back into a dying husk of a planet while fending off the bastards who made it that way.

I know it's probably done to death in its own (I anticipate people would endlessly compare to other things), but IDK I've always liked sci-fi and esp franchises that retain humanity (aliens notwithstanding ) and care at the heart. That's what I'd wanna explore if I made something.

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The continual existence and success of the Cuban revolution with all the odds stacked against them, in the face of inhumane US economic warfare, decades after the collapse of the soviet sphere is just so fucking impressive. They have achieved incredible outcomes for the Cuban people despite the US-enforced impoverishment of the island. 100% adult literacy, longer life expectancy than the US, and an incredible public biotech sector. This small island nation was able to develop MULTIPLE effective covid vaccines on a similar timeline to the US with no profit motive. Protections for queer and trans rights are strong with the recently adopted family code, and are more extensive than many other western nations. Their existence and success flies in the face of US capitalist propaganda, literally within swimming distance of the Florida keys. Its a beautiful thing.

[peregrination-studies]

23 books in 2023

Thank you for the tag @the---hermit !! I did this challenge last year (available here), and finished all the books on my main list just in the nick of time! I’ve been planning this list out since about July of last year, and I’m really excited to get started on it! I’m also doing a few additional lists (ocean-themed, seasonally themed, etc.) that I might post throughout the year. We shall see!

Environmental science/ecology

1) Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (also recommended by friends) (read Dec 2023)

2) The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals — And Other Forgotten Skills by Tristan Gooley (read December 2023)

3) Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton (read April 2023)

4) The World is Blue by Sylvia Earle (read August 2023)

5) Being Salmon Being Human by Martin Lee Mueller (read May 2023)

Classics/Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

6) Timeline by Michael Crichton (read Jan 2023)

7) The Awakening by Kate Chopin (read Nov 2023)

8) Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (read Nov 2023)

9) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (read Nov 2023)

10) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (read March 2023)

Reading around the world

11) The Lost City of The Monkey God by Douglas Preston (Honduras) (read Nov 2023)

12) Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts (Antarctica) (read July 2023)

13) Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (South Africa) (read Nov 2023)

14) Beyond the Last Oasis by Ted Edwards (Western Sahara) (read December 2023)

15) The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag and Katharina Rout (translator) (Mongolia) (read Nov 2023)

Architecture and Design

16) The New Carbon Architecture by Bruce King (read Feb 2023)

17) Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova (read Feb 2023)

18) The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate by Ken Tate and Duke Tate (read Nov 2023)

19) Houses that Can Save the World by Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham (read Jan 2023)

20) Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (read Dec 2023)

Books recommended by friends

21) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Read Jun 2023)

22) O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (Read Dec 2023)

23) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Read Jan 2023)

BONUS

24) Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

25) Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

26) Defenceless: Gli Ultimi Romantici by Giulia Vola (second year of this on my list bc I think I’ll FINALLY be able to have access to my copy again!! Woohoo!!)

27) Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

28) Backpacked: A Reluctant Trip Across Central America by Catherine Ryan Howard

I really love this challenge, so I want to share it far and wide with the world, BUT I also know not everyone wants to do this, so absolutely no pressure tagging: @contre-qui @daydreaming-optimist @sweetlikehoneysteve @notetaeker @humble-boness @silhouette-of-sarah @willowstea @cheshire-castle-library @deirdredoodle @a-students-lifebuoy @phd-on-fire @amareteur @frithams @carefortheearth @ckmstudies @theskittlemuffin and anyone else who wants to!

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The bullish serpent.

[brief character description under cut]

The youngest leader of a crime syndicate in Bay City, Selena Ophite is as cutthroat as she is cold-blooded. Long known as the cornerstone of underground gambling, the Ophites had a rough patch in 2112 when a run of bad luck put the family on the brink of disbandment. The former family boss, Soleil Ophite, disappeared under mysterious circumstances around that time and left his daughter to take the reigns. Under Selena's lead the family underwent a massive resurgence, following changing trends in underground markets and pivoting partially into biotech. The Ophites are now a behemoth in the organ trade, with the largest organ bank in the western United States and a reputation for buying or selling any body part without asking questions. The linchpin of Selena's empire is the Nouveau Monte-Carlo, a casino where guests can lose their shirt-- as well as their skin.

On her relationship with Tora Hoshi:

While Selena is "the youngest crime syndicate leader in Bay City" and Tora is "the leader of the newest crime syndicate in Bay City", these are distinctions that people unaffiliated with either family don't bother to delineate. To anyone else involved in the Bay City Alliance, both families are seen as overly ambitious upstarts that are more likely to be crushed under their own weight than to have an impact on more established groups. For this reason, the Ophites and the Hoshis are bitter rivals that constantly aim to undercut each other.

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[kaftan]

Longish post on a discovery regarding lesbianism and the 1001 Nights (again)

So I was trying to track down an online version of the story of qamar al-zaman and the princess boudour (from 1001 nights) and I instead ran into this delightful webpage which has links to so many relevant scholarly articles about it??

https://www.alpennia.com/lhmp/lhmp-event-person/qamar-al-zaman-and-princess-boudour

Here’s a sample of some of them:

LHMP #384 Bosman 2021 ’I Am Not Good at Any of This’ Playing with Homoeroticism in The Arabian Nights

This article looks at two stories within the 1001 nights that set up scenes of apparent homoeroticism due to gender disguise. In two romances—that of Qamar and Budur, and that of Ali Shar and Zumurrud—the woman disguises herself as a man during a period when the lovers are separated, and then when they are reunited and the disguised woman is in a position of greater social power, she teases her lover (who has not recognized her or even realized she is a woman) by demanding that he submit to her sexually (believing he is submitting to a man).

LHMP #383 Antrim 2020 Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights

This article looks at how beauty and attractiveness and desirability are framed within the early manuscripts of the 1001 Nights as involving similarity rather than gender difference. While later editions, and especially translations and adaptations into western languages, tended to insert a more binary-gendered aesthetic into the descriptions of characters in the thousand and one nights, this is a conceptual shift from the early versions.

LHMP #135 Epps 2008 Comparison, Competition, and Cross-Dressing: Cross-Cultural Analysis in a Contested World

Epps considers themes in stories from The Thousand and One Nights that compare and contrast gender, particularly in terms of evaluating gendered ideas of beauty, and cultural framings of gendered responses to another’s beauty. The initial discusion covers a debate between two jinn (one male, one female) regarding whether boys or girls are more beautiful. On test that is suggested is which gender is least able to control themselves sexually on seeing the other. I.e., that greater beauty will more easily overcome self-control in the other.

And then I went to the website’s homepage and found this bio from the person who runs it?

Heather Rose Jones writes fantasy, historic fantasy, and historical fiction, including the Alpennia series with swordswomen and magic in an alternate Regency setting. She blogs about research into lesbian-like motifs in history and literature at the Lesbian Historic Motif Project which provides inspiration for her fiction. She has a PhD in linguistics, studying metaphor theory and the semantics of Medieval Welsh prepositions, and works as an industrial failure investigator in biotech.

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How was I unaware of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project, which is possibly 10000% my shit? Also, three of the articles on that page are of Sahar Amer’s work; how did I not know that the author who got me interested in medieval Arab lesbianism to begin with was/is a part of this??

Brb exploring this unexpected treaure trove, join me if you like!

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This article is from 2019 and never more important than now. Maybe people didn't take it seriously then. I hope they will, now.

"Shortly after World War II, when Europe lay in ruin and humanity was newly traumatized by the spectacle of organized violence that an authoritarian regime could achieve in the industrial epoch, the Western World experienced a sudden cultural shift. This new regime of thought is sometimes called postmodernism, but that term is obscure and overused; a better way to think about this is that there was no longer a unifying narrative, a guiding thread that united humans in the West. Whereas some countries might have previously had religious bonds, or ethnic bonds, or monarchial bonds, or even political bonds around, say, an authoritarian leader, suddenly there were none anymore — or at least none that were universally believed. Individualism and identity were more important, and politicians and legal bodies would now have to consider how to govern subjects in an ambiguous, pluralistic, multicultural world.

At the same time, it was becoming clear that the forces that shaped the world — the power to  organize society, or to exterminate it — were in the hands of scientists and technologists. The atom bomb, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the radio, the car, electrification, the refrigerator and the moon landing all happened in a span of about a hundred years. Science and technology spurred World War II, and led to its conclusion. And as the war receded from memory, it was apparent that the areas of greatest economic growth were all in technical fields — computers, engineering, communications, biotech and material science.

Jean-Francois Lyotard, a French philosopher who studied the condition of knowledge in this new era, realized that technology had changed the way that humans even thought about what knowledge was. Knowledge that computers could not process or manage — for instance, the ability to think critically or analyze qualitatively — was increasingly devalued, while the kinds of knowledge that computers could process became more important. As Lyotard wrote:

The miniaturisation and commercialisation of machines is already changing the way in which learning is acquired, classified, made available, and exploited....The nature of knowledge cannot survive unchanged within this context of general transformation. It can fit into the new channels, and become operational, only if learning is translated into quantities of information. We can predict that anything in the constituted body of knowledge that is not translatable in this way will be abandoned... Along with the hegemony of computers comes a certain logic, and therefore a certain set of prescriptions determining which statements are accepted as “knowledge” statements.

Lyotard wrote this in 1978, before the modern internet even existed. Today, the idea that computational forms of knowledge — and/or the kinds of people who traffic in that knowledge — are more valuable to our society seems to be universal. Thanks to generous grants from the tech industry and well-heeled nonprofits like the Mellon Foundation, humanities academics across the world have been spurred to do more research in what is called the "digital humanities" — a vague term that often means applying statistical and quantitative tools to data sets that involved humanities research, such as literary corpuses. The tech industry investments in digital humanities fulfills Lyotard's prophecy that society would cease to see the humanities' brand of knowledge as useful; that it would attempt remake the humanities into a discipline characterized by discrete information, rather than a means of analyzing, considering, and philosophizing the world.

In the same essay, Lyotard actually distinguishes between two different types of knowledge: the "positivist" kind, that is applicable to technology; and the "hermenutic" kind of knowledge. Hermeneutics, meaning the study of interpretation, is what the humanities (and to some extent social sciences) concerns itself with. One can see how this kind of knowledge might be difficult for computers to catalogue and use. The idea that a computer could produce a literary analysis of a Vonnegut short story sounds absurd because it is: this is not the way that computers process data, this is not what humans generally regard computers as useful for, and it is certainly not what they are designed to do by the tech companies. Unsurprisingly, then, this type of humanities knowledge has become devalued, and not even considered "knowledge" by many.

So this leads us to a predicament in which slowly, since the postwar era, humanities skills and associated knowledge have been devalued, while STEM knowledge — an acronym for "Science, Tech, Engineering and Math," meaning the kind of quantitative knowledge associated with technology — reigns supreme. One of the most interesting places that you can see this trend is in fiction: the kinds of heroes and protagonists that people admire and look up to in fiction are increasingly those with STEM knowledge, as these people are seen as heroes because we uncritically accept that STEM knowledge is what changes the world. There is a reason that Iron Man is a billionaire technologist, and Batman is a billionaire technologist, and The Hulk's namesake Bruce Banner has multiple PhDs in the Marvel canon, and that the mad scientist Rick Sanchez (of "Rick and Morty") is essentially an immortal, infinitely powerful being because of his ability to understand science and wield technology. We admire these people because they possess the kinds of skills that our society deems the most valuable, and we're told that we, like them, can use these skills to master the universe.

(There is a potent irony here, of course, in that it is artists who write these narratives, and artists who are partly responsible for creating and popularizing this kind of STEM-supremacist propaganda. Weirdly, though, you rarely see a superhero or a super-spy who started life as a painter, or a novelist, or a comic book artist.)

Moreover, in real life, people who possess technological knowledge, primarily the scions of Silicon Valley, are widely adulated, viewed as heroes who will inherently change society for the better. This manifests itself in various ways: some technologists, like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have set up philanthropic foundations to "solve" our social problems — though curiously, the means by which that happens always seems to enrich themselves and their fellow capitalists along the way. Some of them promise widespread social change for the better via their own businesses, as though running a for-profit tech company was in and of itself a gift to the world and a net positive for social cohesion: you see this in many tech companies that advertise themselves as operating "for good," such as in the PR rhetoric of Facebook.  Then, there are those who believe that their contribution to society will be helping us leave this planet, and who are investing heavily in private spaceflight companies with the ultimate intention of colonizing space; this includes both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

In all these cases, the idea that people with STEM knowledge are predestined to save the world is an idea has become so dominant we don’t even question it. Some call this attitude STEM chauvinism, though I prefer the moniker STEM Supremacy. The noun "supremacy," I believe, is called for, because of how the idea that STEM knowledge (and those who posses it) is superior to other forms of knowledge has become so hegemonic that our culture openly mocks those who possess other forms of knowledge — particularly the hermeneutic, humanities-type knowledge. There is a fount of memes about humanities majors and how useless their fields are; some of these memes depict humanities majors as graduating to working at low-wage jobs like McDonalds; others mock critical humanities majors (particularly gender studies) as being out-of-touch, social failures.

Such discourse is intersectional with other supremacist beliefs, such as patriarchy, and often these kinds of memes that celebrate STEM knowledge and mock humanities knowledge will simultaneously mock women and celebrate masculinity. It was unsurprising to me when, last year, it leaked that a Google engineer, James Damore, had circulated an anti-diversity manifesto in which he used discredited science to argue that there were biological reasons for the gender gap. He went on to argue that there were reasons men were more interested in computers and in leadership, and women less. Though Damore was fired, he maintains that many of his peers agreed with him. Such incidents speak to the ways that different chauvinist tendencies, one of STEM Supremacy and one of patriarchy, can intersect to form novel noxious political ideologies.

The concept of "STEM Supremacy" relies on a popular belief that STEM knowledge is synonymous with progress. Yet if you take this kind of belief a bit too far, you might be keen to abandon democratic ideals and start to believe that we really should live in a society in which the STEM nerds rule over us. This has resulted in a number of half-baked supremacists within the tech industry who advocate either for authoritarian technocracies or, more bizarrely, monarchy.

I’ll give a few brief examples. There’s Google engineer Justine Tunney, a former Occupy Wall Street activist who now calls for “open-source authoritarianism. ” Tunney has argued against democracy and in favor of a monarchy run by technologists, and advocated for the United States to bring back indentured servitude.

But perhaps best-known among the techno-monarchists is Mencius Moldbug, the nom de plume of Curtis Yarvin, a programmer and founder of startup Tlon — a startup that is backed at least in part by billionaire anti-democracy libertarian Peter Thiel, who famously once wrote he did not believe democracy and freedom were compatible, and expressed skepticism over women's suffrage. Moldbug's polemics are circular, semi-comprehensible, and blur political theory and pop culture; Corey Pein of The Baffler described his treatises as "archaic [and] grandiose," while being "heavily informed by the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and George Lucas."

Both of these so-called thinkers constitute parts of a larger movement that calls itself "Dark Enlightenment," alternatingly known as "neoreactionaries." True to its name,  the political agenda of Dark Enlightenment includes a celebration of patriarchy, monarchy, and racialized theories of intelligence differentials. 

The notion that monarchy is popular again in Silicon Valley might sound absurd. We associate monarchies with stodgy, quaint medieval kingdoms, the opposite of the disruptive, fast-moving tech industry. And yet those in the tech industry who see monarchy as appealing are keen to point out how the hierarchical aspects of monarchial rule are actually familiar to their industry. As Pein mentions in his Baffler essay, Thiel delivered a lecture in 2012 in which he explained the connection:

A startup is basically structured as a monarchy. We don’t call it that, of course. That would seem weirdly outdated, and anything that’s not democracy makes people uncomfortable.

[But] it is certainly not representative governance. People don’t vote on things. Once a startup becomes a mature company, it may gravitate toward being more of a constitutional republic. There is a board that theoretically votes on behalf of all the shareholders. But in practice, even in those cases it ends up somewhere between constitutional republic and monarchy. Early on, it’s straight monarchy. Importantly, it isn’t an absolute dictatorship. No founder or CEO has absolute power. It’s more like the archaic feudal structure. People vest the top person with all sorts of power and ability, and then blame them if and when things go wrong.

[T]he truth is that startups and founders lean toward the dictatorial side because that structure works better for startups. It is more tyrant than mob because it should be. In some sense, startups can’t be democracies because none are. None are because it doesn’t work. If you try to submit everything to voting processes when you’re trying to do something new, you end up with bad, lowest common denominator type results.

The underpinnings of STEM Supremacy are, as I've laid out, complicated to see and stretch back to the end of World War II — but when put together they form a broader picture of where the philosopher-kings of the tech industry are heading, and what they believe. If we continue to live in a society that devalues humanities-type knowledge and glorifies STEM knowledge, this kind of thinking will persist, I fear. And the tech industry is partly responsible for cultivating this noxious worldview, in the sense that their PR apparatuses glorify STEM knowledge and encourage the public to view their leaders as demigods.

This isn't a unique phenomenon. Any situation where a certain ideology is denigrated and another valorized, there will be at some point a corresponding rise in a chauvinism in favor of the valorized ideology. The situation today is made more complicated by the fact that the tech industry benefits from the normalization of STEM Supremacist beliefs. The unearned trust that the public has for tech startups and tech industry ideas, the lack of regulation, and the absurd valuations of companies that continue to lose money — this is all motivated by an underlying belief that these companies are innately good, their owners smart, and their work more vital than other fields. Whether they admit it or not, you can draw a line from the public relations departments of tech companies and Justine Tunney's call for "open-source authoritarianism."

Ironically, the only antidote to all this sophistry is the humanities — the kind of critical thinking that they entail, and the kind of thinking that it is impossible for computers to do. I've often wondered if part of the tech industry's investment in digital humanities is designed to help stave off critical discourse or criticism of their companies. Indeed, by remapping the idea of what knowledge is in the first place, the tech industry is helping to realize a future in which we lack even the language to think critically about their role in society. Or maybe even a future in which they rule over us as monarchial, benevolent dictators — at least in their eyes. Perhaps this was the plan all along. (Oh yeah. It was)

By KEITH A. SPENCER

Keith A. Spencer is a senior editor at Salon who edits Salon's science/health vertical. His book, "A People's History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy," was released in 2018. Follow him on Twitter at @keithspencer, or on Facebook here.

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THESE FUCKERS IN SILICON VALLEY WANT A MONARCHY !!

"Few Catholics outside the D.C area are likely familiar with Fr. Arne, who never wrote a book or made national headlines. Yet a list of those who appear in Eberstadt’s book to laud his role among “billionaires and Supreme Court Justices” indicates the breadth of his influence: George Weigel, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, Arthur Brooks, Hadley Arkes, Peter Thiel, and Fr. Paul Scalia, to name but a few..."

"From his perch on K Street at the Catholic Information Center (CIC), Father Arne Panula shepherded some of the nation’s power brokers into the Catholic Church..." Mary Eberstadt

“As recently as 2017, Billy [Barr] was on the board of directors of the DC-based Catholic Information Center, led by the ultraright and secretive group Opus Dei…Its board includes the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo, and White House counsel Pat Cipollone..."

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BioNTech Faces Lawsuit Over COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects

In a landmark development, BioNTech SE, the German biotechnology company that partnered with Pfizer Inc. to produce one of the first COVID-19 vaccines, is now facing its first legal challenge in Germany over vaccine side effects.

In an unprecedented case that could potentially spark hundreds of similar claims across Germany, the plaintiff – a woman who has chosen to remain anonymous due to Germany’s privacy laws – is suing BioNTech for a minimum of €150,000 ($161,500) in damages.

According to Reuters, she cites “damages for bodily harm as well as compensation for unspecified material damage,” as detailed by Hamburg’s regional court and the law firm representing her, Rogert & Ulbrich.

Side effects listed in the suit include upper-body pain, swollen extremities, fatigue, and sleeping disorders attributed to the BioNTech Pfizer vaccine.

The landmark case’s first hearing will take place on Monday.

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More lawsuits are coming in Germany. Rogert & Ulbrich reports filing about 250 cases for clients seeking damages for COVID-19 vaccine side effects. Another law firm, Caesar-Preller, claims to represent 100 cases, collectively covering almost all such cases in Germany. A few similar cases have been filed in Italy.

Reuters reported:

Tobias Ulbrich, a lawyer at Rogert & Ulbrich, told Reuters he aimed to challenge in court the assessment made by European Union regulators and German vaccine assessment bodies that the BioNTech shot has a positive risk-benefit profile.

German pharmaceutical law states that makers of drugs or vaccines are only liable to pay damages for side-effects if “medical science” shows that their products cause disproportionate harm relative to their benefits or if the label information is wrong.

BioNTech, which holds the marketing authorisation in Germany for the shot it developed with Pfizer , said it concluded after careful consideration that the case was without merit.

“The positive benefit-risk profile of Comirnaty remains positive and the safety profile has been well characterised,” the biotech firm said, referring to the vaccine’s brand name.

It noted about 1.5 billion people had received the shot across the world, including more than 64 million in Germany.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) also claimed that BioNTech’s Comirnaty, the most prevalent vaccine in the Western world, is “safe for use.”

EMA claimed that vaccines have helped save almost ’20 million lives globally’ in the first year of the pandemic alone. While acknowledging a ‘rare’ risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, two types of heart inflammation, primarily in young males post-vaccination, the EMA affirms that safety monitoring was not compromised during fast-track assessments.

Reuters reported that the liability issue remains uncertain, especially regarding who would pay legal costs or compensation if the plaintiff wins. EU’s bulk purchase agreements with vaccine manufacturers, including BioNTech-Pfizer, reportedly contain full or partial liability waivers for legal costs and potential compensation, which could force EU governments to bear some costs.

Germany, like many countries, has a no-fault compensation program for individuals who suffer permanent harm from vaccines. However, participation in this program does not preclude an individual from seeking damages separately.

In contrast, the United States has granted manufacturers immunity from liability for COVID vaccines receiving regulatory approval.

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Read-Alike Friday: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend.

Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

This is the first volume in the “Monk and Robot” series. 

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “Borne” entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free. Driven insane by his torture at the Company, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers like Rachel.

At first, Borne looks like nothing at all—just a green lump that might be a Company discard. The Company, although severely damaged, is rumoured to still make creatures and send them to distant places that have not yet suffered Collapse. Borne somehow reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment she resents; attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, the Balcony Cliffs, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick, not to render Borne down to raw genetic material for the drugs he sells—she cannot break that bond.

Against his better judgment, out of affection for Rachel or perhaps some other impulse, Wick respects her decision. Rachel, meanwhile, despite her loyalty to Wick, knows he has kept secrets from her. Searching his apartment, she finds a burnt, unreadable journal titled “Mord,” a cryptic reference to the Magician (a rival drug dealer) and evidence that Wick has planned the layout of the Balcony Cliffs to match the blueprint of the Company building. What is he hiding? Why won’t he tell her about what happened when he worked for the Company?

This is the first volume in the “Borne” series. 

Anthropocene Rag by Alexander C. Irvine 

In the future United States, our own history has faded into myth and traveling across the country means navigating wastelands and ever-changing landscapes.

The country teems with monsters and artificial intelligences try to unpack their own becoming by recreating myths and legends of their human creators. Prospector Ed, an emergent AI who wants to understand the people who made him, assembles a ragtag team to reach the mythical Monument City.

In this nanotech Western, Alex Irvine infuses American mythmaking with terrifying questions about the future and who we will become.

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig

Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are other "shepherds" who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.

For as the sleepwalking phenomenon awakens terror and violence in America, the real danger may not be the epidemic but the fear of it. With society collapsing all around them--and an ultraviolent militia threatening to exterminate them--the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic. The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart--or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world.

This is the first volume in the “Wanderers” series. 

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Why Protein Analysis Labs Are Crucial for Biotech Research

Protein analysis is at the heart of modern biotechnology research. As the building blocks of life, proteins play critical roles in virtually every biological process. Understanding their structure, function, and interactions is essential for advancements in medicine, agriculture, environmental science, and many other fields. Protein analysis services are fundamental to biotech research, providing the tools and expertise necessary to decipher the complexities of protein behavior. This blog delves into why protein analysis labs are indispensable to biotech research and how they drive innovation and discovery.

The Role of Protein Analysis in Biotech Research

Biotechnology research seeks to understand and manipulate biological systems for the development of new products and technologies. Proteins, being central to these systems, require detailed study to unlock their potential. Protein analysis services offer a range of techniques and methodologies to explore various aspects of proteins, including:

Protein Identification and Characterization: Identifying proteins and determining their structures are crucial steps in understanding their functions. Protein analysis labs use techniques like mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography to identify proteins and analyze their structures.

Post-Translational Modifications (PTMs): PTMs play a significant role in regulating protein activity and function. Protein analysis services employ methods like mass spectrometry and Western blotting to detect and characterize these modifications, providing insights into protein regulation.

Protein-Protein Interactions: Studying how proteins interact with each other is essential for understanding cellular pathways and networks. Techniques such as co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) and yeast two-hybrid screening are used to identify and analyze protein-protein interactions.

Quantitative Proteomics: Quantifying protein expression levels across different conditions is critical for understanding disease mechanisms and identifying biomarkers. Protein analysis labs use techniques like tandem mass tags (TMT) and label-free quantitation to measure protein abundance.

Structural Proteomics: Determining the three-dimensional structures of proteins helps elucidate their functions and interactions. Techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) are employed in protein analysis labs to study protein structures at atomic resolution.

Advancements Enabled by Protein Analysis Services

Protein analysis services have been pivotal in driving key advancements in biotechnology research. Here are some areas where their contributions have been particularly impactful:

Drug Discovery and Development

Protein analysis is integral to drug discovery, providing critical insights into the molecular targets of drugs. By identifying and characterizing target proteins, researchers can develop more effective and selective therapeutics. Protein analysis services enable the screening of potential drug candidates, assessment of drug-protein interactions, and evaluation of drug efficacy and safety.

Understanding Disease Mechanisms

Many diseases are caused by abnormalities in protein function or expression. Protein analysis services help identify disease-related proteins and their modifications, offering valuable information for diagnosing and understanding disease mechanisms. This knowledge is essential for developing targeted therapies and personalized medicine approaches.

Biomarker Discovery

Biomarkers are molecules that indicate a biological state or condition. Protein analysis labs play a crucial role in discovering and validating protein biomarkers for various diseases. These biomarkers can be used for early diagnosis, monitoring disease progression, and assessing treatment responses.

Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology involves designing and constructing new biological parts and systems. Protein analysis services are essential for characterizing synthetic proteins and ensuring their functionality. This enables the creation of novel proteins with desired properties for applications in medicine, agriculture, and industry.

Agricultural Biotechnology

Protein analysis services contribute to agricultural biotechnology by studying proteins involved in plant growth, development, and resistance to pests and diseases. This information is used to develop genetically modified crops with improved traits, such as increased yield and resilience to environmental stressors.

Quality Assurance in Protein Analysis Services

Ensuring high-quality results is paramount in protein analysis. Protein analysis labs implement rigorous quality assurance practices to guarantee the accuracy, reliability, and reproducibility of their findings. Here are some key quality assurance measures:

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): SOPs provide detailed instructions for each analytical procedure, ensuring consistency and minimizing errors.

Instrument Calibration and Maintenance: Regular calibration and maintenance of analytical instruments ensure accurate measurements and reliable performance.

Method Validation: Validating analytical methods demonstrates their suitability and reliability for specific applications.

Quality Control (QC) Measures: QC measures, including the use of control samples and standards, help monitor the performance of analytical methods and detect any deviations.

Training and Competency: Regular training ensures that personnel are knowledgeable and skilled in the latest techniques and quality standards.

Data Management and Documentation: Accurate and comprehensive documentation of procedures, results, and observations supports transparency and traceability.

Challenges and Future Directions

While protein analysis services have significantly advanced biotech research, several challenges remain. These include the complexity of protein structures, the dynamic nature of protein interactions, and the need for high-throughput and high-resolution techniques. Addressing these challenges requires continuous innovation and the development of new technologies.

Future directions in protein analysis services include:

Integration of Multi-Omics Data: Combining proteomics with other omics data, such as genomics and metabolomics, provides a more comprehensive understanding of biological systems.

Advanced Imaging Techniques: Developing new imaging techniques and improving existing ones, such as cryo-EM, will enhance our ability to study protein structures in greater detail.

Automation and High-Throughput Analysis: Automation and high-throughput techniques will increase the efficiency and scalability of protein analysis, enabling the study of larger and more complex samples.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Applying AI and machine learning to protein analysis can help identify patterns and predict protein behavior, accelerating discoveries.

Conclusion

Protein analysis services are crucial for advancing biotechnology research. They provide the tools and expertise needed to study proteins in detail, driving discoveries in drug development, disease understanding, biomarker discovery, synthetic biology, and agricultural biotechnology. By implementing rigorous quality assurance practices, protein analysis labs ensure the accuracy and reliability of their findings. Despite existing challenges, continuous innovation and the development of new technologies promise to further enhance the capabilities and impact of protein analysis services. As we continue to unlock the secrets of proteins, protein analysis will remain at the forefront of scientific discovery and technological advancement.

Original Source: https://kendricklabs.blogspot.com/2024/08/why-protein-analysis-labs-are-crucial.html

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Blood Screening Market worth $3.4 billion by 2028

Blood Screening Market in terms of revenue was estimated to be worth $2.4 billion in 2023 and is poised to reach $3.4 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 7.2% from 2023 to 2028 according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets™. Growth in this market is mainly driven by the growing requirement for donated blood, the rising number of blood donations around the world, and the ever-increasing infectious diseases. However, operational barriers and the high cost of Blood screening instruments is likely to hamper the growth of blood screening market.

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The Reagents & Kits segment is expected to account for the largest share in 2022.

Based on product, the blood screening market is segmented into reagents & kits, instruments, and software & services. Increase in demand and continuous use of the reagents and kits during blood transfusion processes, post blood donations is responsible for the large segment of this segment.

Nucleic Acid Test segment aimed the highest share during the forecast period

The blood screening market is segmented into nucleic acid tests (NAT), serology/immunoassay, rapid tests, western blot assays, and next-generation sequencing (NGS). In 2022, the nucleic acid test (NAT) segment accounted for the largest share of the blood screening market. From all the other technologies, NAT provides high precision, sensitivity and accuracy for blood screening and therefore, holds the largest share.

North America has the upper hand in the global Blood screening market

By regional segmentation, the blood screening market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East Africa. North America has the largest share and is continuing to dominate the blood screening market. The factors responsible for the large share of North America in this market are the increasing prevalence of infectious diseases, rising awareness in blood donations, and the growing healthcare system that is highly developed in the US and Canada.

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Blood Screening Market Dynamics:

Drivers:

Increasing number of blood donations worldwide

Restraints:

Alternative technologies

Opportunities:

Emerging markets

Challenge:

High cost of blood screening technologies

Key Market Players:

The major players operating in this market are F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (Switzerland), Grifols (Spain), Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (US), Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (US), Danaher (Beckman Coulter, Inc.) (US), bioMérieux (France),  Hologic (US), Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (US), Becton, Dickinson and Company (US), DiaSorin (Italy), Siemens Healthineers (Germany), QuidelOrtho Corporation (US), Merck KGaA (Germany), Revvity (Earlier known as PerkinElmer Inc.) (US), Bio-Techne Corporation (US), GFE (Germany), Trinity Biotech (Ireland), Mindray (China), Maccura Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (China), Immucor, Inc. (US), Cellabs (Australia), Abnova Corporation (Taiwan), Enzo Biochem, Inc. (US), J. Mitra & Co. Pvt. Ltd. (India) and Tulip Diagnostics (India).

Recent Developments:

In February 2023, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (US) acquired TIB Molbiol (Germany), to expand its PCR test portfolio with a wide range of assays for infectious diseases.

In December 2021, Hologic, Inc. (US) launched Panther Trax for high-volume molecular testing.

In May 2021, Beckmann Coulter (US) launched SARS-CoV-2 IgG.

In September 2021, Roche Diagnostics (Switzerland) acquired TIB Molbiol Group (Germany). This acquisition will enhance Roche's broad portfolio of molecular diagnostics solutions with a wide range of assays for infectious diseases, such as identifying SARS-CoV-2 variants.

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Blood Screening Market Advantages:

Early Disease Detection: Blood screening allows for the early detection of various diseases, including infections, cancers, and chronic conditions. Early diagnosis often leads to more effective treatment and improved patient outcomes.

Preventative Medicine: It enables preventative measures by identifying risk factors and potential health issues before they become serious. This proactive approach can lead to better health management and reduced healthcare costs.

Transfusion Safety: Blood screening is vital in ensuring the safety of blood transfusions. It screens for infectious agents like HIV, hepatitis, and syphilis, minimizing the risk of transmitting diseases through donated blood.

Population Health Management: Blood screening data can be analyzed on a population level, helping healthcare systems identify trends, allocate resources more effectively, and develop targeted public health interventions.

Personalized Medicine: Advances in blood screening techniques, such as genetic testing, allow for personalized treatment plans tailored to an individual's genetic makeup, improving the effectiveness of therapies and reducing adverse reactions.

Research and Drug Development: Blood screening plays a pivotal role in clinical trials and drug development, providing insights into treatment efficacy, patient response, and biomarker identification.

Point-of-Care Testing: Point-of-care blood screening devices enable rapid diagnostics in diverse settings, from clinics to remote areas, facilitating timely medical interventions and reducing the burden on healthcare facilities.

Healthcare Efficiency: Automating blood screening processes increases efficiency, reduces human error, and speeds up results, allowing healthcare providers to make quicker and more informed decisions.

Global Health: Blood screening contributes to global health efforts by identifying and controlling infectious diseases, making it an essential tool in disease surveillance and outbreak management.

Improved Quality of Life: Ultimately, the blood screening market's advantages contribute to an overall improvement in the quality of life for individuals and communities, promoting better health and well-being.

In summary, the blood screening market's advantages encompass early detection, preventative care, safety, personalized medicine, research, and healthcare efficiency, all of which have a profound impact on healthcare outcomes and public health.

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Industrial Plots at Reliance MET Gurgaon call @ +91-9650389757

About Reliance Industrial Plots

Over the last twenty years Republic of India has been graded among the highest 3 investment destinations worldwide. The Indian economy has been growing at over six % and also the foreign direct investments are raising together with accrued exchange reserves to draw in investments.

India continues to require steps and has reduced the company tax structure from thirty to fifteen % for brand spanking new units, so creating Republic of India a most well-liked destination for recent investments.

At reliance we tend to believe growth is life. Reliance is that the largest company in Republic of India and could be a forerunner within the energy, telecommunication and retail sectors. The fortune five hundred international list of 2018 ranks reliance because the 106th largest company within the world. Reliance contributes ten % of India’s total exports and three % of India’s DGP.

Participating within the infrastructure development of the country reliance is establishing Associate in integrated industrial town the model economic town or Reliance Industrial Plots in Delhi NCR.

Over a region of 8000 acres or 35sq. kilometers the corporate intends to finish the event of over 2500 acres within the next five years. The initial part of development over one 000 acres has already commenced.

The leading international firms as well as Japanese multinationals like Panasonic and Denso became operational. Indian big reliance industries have conjointly established their unit here and international developers like indoor house all consignment and FM provision area unit establishing massive logistical parks.

The total investments thus far within the project space exceed five hundred million North American nation greenbacks generating employment for over 5000 persons.

Over a hundred and forty firms across a spread of business sectors like engineering, car elements, garments, goods, natural philosophy, biotech, plastics and provision decide to establish their units over future few years.

The model economic town meets a bunch of necessities necessary for any business to flourish. Reliance Industrial Plots area unit strategically situated within the metropolis region in district Jhajjar of Haryana simply north of Gurgaon.

Along the western border of the metropolis territory of Delhi the Reliance Industrial Plots website is home to the national cancer institute that has been discovered at the AIIMS field. IIT Delhi is springing up over fifty acres within the space, XLRI a number one management institute has established its Delhi field within the neighborhood additionally Sehwag international faculty, university and alternative leading faculties all offer glorious education choices.

In the Manesar space the state highway conjointly known as the western peripheral state highway passing through the Reliance Industrial Plots connects all the national highways emanating from Delhi.

Four lane medium-divided roads connect the MET project space with the metropolis territory of Delhi. The statesman international airdrome presently accessible from the NH-8 are going to be higher accessible upon completion of construction of the northern peripheral state highway or Dwarka state highway.

The Faruknagar terminal situated adjacent to the commercial Plots space has frequent rider trains running to Gurgaon and Delhi. Requisite approvals for a rail connected provision hub area unit in situ.

The metropolis region contains a vital base of producing units across sectors and is also home to variety of premier technical establishments and thus there's an outsized pool of mean work force without delay out there.

Power necessities for the project are going to be met from the state distribution grid with a 220 kV station providing 100 dependability. The Reliance Industrial Plots project has Associate in Nursing approved allocation of water from the NCR water channel.

This is adequately supplemented by approved groundwater extraction. Reliance Industrial Plot is planned as associate in integrated industrial town with social infrastructure as well as residential facilities, cheap housing, and residential homes for industrial staff, recreational parks, sports complexes, clubs, looking malls, multiplexes, police stations, post offices and banks among others. The NCR and also the northern region account for the biggest market of the country.

Any business situated at MET are going to be ready to maximize existing backward and forward linkages with the NCR’s industrial and industrial enterprises. This mix of things makes the model economic town project a most well-liked location for each investors and entrepreneurs.

Model Economic town

INDUSTRIAL PROFILE close to METL

2/3rd of cars, five hundredth of tractors, hr of motor cycles in Republic of India

50% of refrigerators, twenty fifth sanitary ware and twenty fifth of bicycles in Republic of India

Around 1200 massive & medium enterprises and eighty,000 SMEs.

More than fifty German firms already gift.

INFRASTRUCTURE STRENGTH

Power necessities are going to be met from the State distribution grid. Haryana state is sharply on a mission to turning into an influence spare state. The project can establish 220 kV GIS substations, as these area unit connected to the national grid, thus making certain smart dependability of power

STRATEGIC LOCATION

MET Project is strategically situated within the industrially backward Jhajjar district and connected elements of Gurgaon district of Haryana State covering thirty revenue villages, of that twenty two area unit in Jhajjar district and eight in Gurgaon district.

Strong property

The area has sturdy linkages to the most important urban areas amongst the encircling developments of the north Indian region also as alternative regions through national and state highways, expressways also as rail corridors.

Physical options

The land is fairly flat and also the average elevation of the district is regarding 215m higher than Mean water level (MSL), with associate in elevation distinction of regarding 1m and is marked by sediment plains and at some places by undulating dunes. There's a mild slope towards associate in nursing outlet drain that runs across the location. The hydraulic gradient of H2O is extremely mild. The load carrying capability of the soil is high

SOCIAL ECONOMIC PROFILE

MET could be an inexperienced field project developed within the space comprising twenty two villages inside its known boundary in Jhajjar. The villages have a complete population of forty eight,471 (2011 census). There's no history of any disturbances supported faith denomination within the space. Folks area unit industrious and industrious and also the joint family system that was fashionable is slowly giving thanks to nuclear families. Women are creating major strides in education and repair sectors.

DEVELOPMENT AROUND MET

The second field of the leading national institute All Republic of India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is being developed over a locality of three hundred acres of land in village Badsa on MDR 136 inside the MET area. The primary part of this facility would house the National Cancer Institute and Hospital. Strech OPD department is already purposeful and work on the event of this super specialty hospital is to start out shortly

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Maxanim Enhancing Laboratory Solutions for Research and Diagnosis

In a groundbreaking move within the fields of laboratory supply and biotech research, Maxanim proudly announces its integration into the esteemed Gentaur Group. This partnership marks a significant milestone in the pursuit of providing cutting-edge testing tools, reagents, and specialized solutions for laboratories across the USA and Europe. With a focus on delivering high-quality products tailored for research and diagnostic purposes, Maxanim’s inclusion within the Gentaur Group fortifies its commitment to excellence and innovation in the field.

Maxanim’s expertise lies in the provision of laboratory reagents and tools essential for a wide array of scientific endeavors, ranging from fundamental research to advanced diagnostic applications. As part of the Gentaur Group, Maxanim extends its reach and capabilities, ensuring a broader access to its comprehensive portfolio of products and services.

One of the flagship offerings by Maxanim is its extensive range of ELISA kits meticulously designed for research purposes. These kits, renowned for their reliability and accuracy, empower researchers with the tools necessary to explore various biological pathways, identify biomarkers, and unravel the mysteries of diseases. Whether unraveling the complexities of cancer biology or deciphering the mechanisms of infectious diseases, Maxanim’s ELISA kits, Panbio serve as invaluable assets in the scientific community’s quest for knowledge and breakthroughs.

The expanded portfolio of Maxanim now includes a comprehensive range of products such as Abbott, ABM Labs’ innovative tools for gene expression studies, Adeno and AAV vectors for gene therapy applications, iPSC reagents for stem cell research, Lentivectors and Retroviral vector for gene delivery systems, as well as Adenovirus vectors for vaccine development and gene transfer experiments. Additionally, Maxanim offers products from renowned suppliers such as Cusabio, Nova Lifetech plasmids, Gentarget, SBI, ABMGood, and Genprice, ensuring access to a diverse array of high-quality reagents and tools.

Furthermore, Maxanim takes pride in its prowess in manufacturing custom recombinant proteins and plasmids, catering to the specific needs and requirements of researchers and laboratories. With a keen emphasis on quality assurance and precision, Maxanim ensures that each custom product meets the highest standards of excellence, empowering scientists with the flexibility to embark on ambitious projects and push the boundaries of scientific discovery.

In addition to recombinant proteins and plasmids, Maxanim specializes in the design and production of primers, rabbit plyclonal antibodies, and mouse monoclonal antibodies. These essential tools play a pivotal role in various experimental techniques, including PCR, Western blotting, and immunohistochemistry, facilitating the detection and analysis of specific molecules with unparalleled specificity and sensitivity.

The integration of Maxanim into the Gentaur Group not only amplifies its product offerings but also reinforces its commitment to customer satisfaction and service excellence. With a dedicated team of experts and scientists, Maxanim remains steadfast in its mission to empower researchers and laboratories with the tools and resources necessary to drive groundbreaking discoveries and advancements in the realms of biotechnology and medical research.

Moreover, Maxanim’s collaboration with Gentaur Group enhances its distribution network, ensuring prompt and efficient delivery of products to laboratories across the USA and Europe. Through strategic partnerships and alliances, Maxanim endeavors to streamline the procurement process for researchers, enabling them to focus their efforts and resources on their scientific pursuits.

With Maxanim’s integration into the Gentaur Group, researchers can now benefit from a seamless procurement experience, accessing a wide range of products including ELISA kits, PCR reagents, Antybody, and quality controls like NatTtrol. Whether it’s basic research, drug discovery, or clinical diagnostics, Maxanim remains committed to providing the necessary tools and support to accelerate scientific progress and improve human health worldwide.

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