Cheese! For many of us, it is a favorite snack, eaten on its own, or with bread. The key to good cheese lies in rennet —a collection of enzymes found in the stomachs of ruminant animals. Rennet’s primary component, chymosin, acts as a dairy coagulant when added to milk, separating...
It’s alive! Mykovam, the hardworking biofertilizer
Imagine that by applying a fertilizer once in a plant’s early life, it gets a major upgrade thereafter. Visualize little fungi helpers clinging to the plant’s roots to supply additional moisture and nutrients, in exchange for a share of plant sugars. This is the mechanism by which biofertilizer Mykovam works...
Use Bio N today, keep high farm costs away
Almost 40 years after its discovery, the Bio N biofertilizer of the UPLB-National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (UPLB-BIOTECH) continues to ease the burdens of struggling farmers who have found it extremely difficult to keep up with the high prices of chemical fertilizers. Ricky Mabunga, a farmer-businessman in Isabela...
UPLB-BIOTECH’s Probiotics for Aquaculture are a fish farmer’s best friend
Known as good bacteria, probiotics have been proven beneficial to human health, the agriculture and fisheries, and various industries. A probiotics technology developed by the UPLB-National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (UPLB-BIOTECH) has been helping fish farmers in Nueva Vizcaya improve and increase their yield. Eliazar B. De Guzman,...
UPLB Scientist receives 2021 Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award
Scientist Nelly S. Aggangan of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH), has been hailed as one of the recipients of the 2021 Presidential Lingkod Bayan Award by the Civil Service Commission (CSC). The award, presented virtually on Nov. 15, recognizes Dr. Aggangan’s contribution to science, service to...
UPLB BIOTECH researcher is first Filipino Young Asian Biotechnologist Awardee
Dr. Rodney H. Perez of the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (BIOTECH) has been named recipient of the Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize (2021) by the Society for Biotechnology, Japan (SBJ). He is the first-ever Filipino to receive the award. SBJ has recognized Dr. Perez for exemplary research in...