US-based Pinay researcher: Stem cell technology can improve food sector

Posted: Published on November 18th, 2012

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A United States-based Filipina researcher said "stem cell technology," a rapidly developing field that offers a cure for cancer, can also be used to improve the food sector.

In an international biotech conference, Candice Ginn Tahimic, a biology researcher in San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center in California said, "A lot of people are lobbying about labeling of food, but nobody seems to be lobbying about the science behind the food industry."

Tahimic was one of the presenters in the "9th Asian Reproductive Biotechnology Society (ARBS) conference" held from Oct. 23 to 28 in Edsa Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City.

Stem cell technology

Tahimic's study, titled "Stem cell technology and applications in livestock propagation and improvement" was featured on the second day of the conference.

Her research focused on how stem cell technology could be applied to "livestock propagation, trait improvement, and production of commercial valuable substances and the creation of large animal models for studying human diseases."

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