bioprospecting
biodiversity prospecting

"I was willing to sign anything saying that we were not doing any bioprospecting."

Bioprospecting can become a type of biopiracy when such principles are not respected.

But many nations, realizing the potential value of such genetic resources to the biotechnology industry, are demanding pay for such bioprospecting.

Bioprospecting: Searching for sustainable, commercially applicable uses of the resources of biodiversity.

Bioprospecting is an umbrella term describing the process of discovery and commercialization of new products based on biological resources.

Bioprospecting: legitimate research or 'biopiracy'?

The company had already reaped over $2 billion in profit from such bioprospecting; Charles Toussaint's job was to help his employers earn even more.

Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World, Harvard University Press.

"The potential return to bioprospecting has been greatly exaggerated," argued David Simpson, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, an environmental research organization in Washington.

I have always believed that bioprospecting can play a positive role in conservation, provided ethical concerns regarding rights of both the indigenous peoples and host countries are adequately addressed.

Marine ecosystems are particularly important, although inappropriate bioprospecting can increase biodiversity loss, as well as violating the laws of the communities and states from which the resources are taken.

The Romanian research team intends to do bioprospecting, ecological and weather forecasting, measurement of seismic and geomagnetic activity and gathering of data regarding radio communication interference.

Two types of analysis are used in the bioprospecting of metagenomic data: function-driven screening for an expressed trait, and sequence-driven screening for DNA sequences of interest.

He has got multidisciplinary training in Cytogenetics, Plant Breeding, Bioprospecting, Biotechnology, Conservation Biology, Ethnobiology, Ethnopharmacology and pharmacognosy.

However unregulated and inappropriate bioprospecting could potentially lead to overexploitation, ecosystem degradation and loss of biodiversity, as well as impact on the rights of the communities and states from which the resources are taken.

During an eight-year tenure, he transformed UNU-IAS into an internationally-respected institution active in a wide range of areas such as genetic bioprospecting, bio-diplomacy, governance, urban management, science policy for sustainable development, the protection of traditional knowledge and education for sustainable development.

Ethical and legal issues include: Patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark infringement, patent and copyright misuse, submarine patents, biological patents, patent, copyright and trademark trolling, Employee raiding and monopolizing talent, Bioprospecting, biopiracy and industrial espionage, digital rights management.