Philippines Biotech News

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new grant to fund the Golden Rice project in the Philippines and Bangladesh. This is a summary of the media coverage, highlighting the new partnership and the potential benefits.

IRRI touts Golden Rice benefits at 21st Scientific Conference of the Federation of Crop Science Societies of the Philippines

BIOTECH's Bioremediation Research Team based in UP Los Baños is currently conducting studies to rehabilitate several contaminated sites in the country. These include an abandoned mining site at Mogpog, Marinduque, and bodies of water in Bulacan.

Biotechnologists at UP Los Baños are hard at work putting the final touches to the prototype of a wastewater treatment system that uses bacteria.