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The exhibition 'Home Biotech' will take place from 4 to 12 April in the CosmoCaixa Museum in Alcobendas (Madrid)
The applications of biotechnology in our daily lives
Drafting Interempresas01/04/2009
April 1, 2009
German pharmaceutical Spanish Association of Biocompanies (Asebio) has launched, with the support of the Spanish Foundation for science and technology (Fecyt) and the collaboration of the chemical company Merck, an innovative new initiative for dissemination of biotechnology. It's the exhibition 'Tu Casa biotech', to be held from 4 to 12 April in the CosmoCaixa Museum in Alcobendas (Madrid).
'Your home Biotech' will enable society to discover the applications of biotechnology in our daily lives through an environment close to the citizen, which will show different inputs, products and biotechnological processes. It's a very informative presentation, that through an environment similar to the kitchen of a House, visitors discover, through a system of questions and answers, what benefits gives currently biotechnology, in areas such as foodhealth, agriculture, the environment and industry. Similarly, the public can know a range of products and articles that illustrate the involvement of biotechnology in our daily tasks.
Practical workshop
An informative video about the contributions of biotechnology in today's society and a workshop complete the sample. Thanks to this workshop, the visitor can participate in the extraction of DNA from bacteria in the characterization of different species of fish and detect the materno-filial linkage using genetic techniques. This first exhibition of 'Home Biotech' has a clear itinerant nature and is provided to other autonomous communities receive the sample throughout the year.
Exhibition 'Home Biotech'
Date: 4-12 April
Place: Museum CosmoCaixa Madrid (painter Velázquez s/n, Alcobendas, Madrid). Tel: 91.484.52.00
Time: 10: 00 to 20: 00
Through an environment similar to the kitchen of a House, the visitor will discover what benefits gives currently biotechnology.
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