The Legal Framework for Science and Technology Development

This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST on May 5, 1989. Researches show a positive relationship between expenditures for science and technology and the level of technological development/economic development. This article discusses the legal issues and provides legal framework on S&T development.science and technology, legal issues

Macro Perspective and Cross-country Comparison of Patenting Issues

To stimulate technological development, it is necessary that intellectual property be clearly rewarded. It is not, therefore, surprising that international fora have discussed the issues of IPR and patents. This article, which has been presented during the DOST-PIDS Seminar-Discussion on “Intellectual Property Rights: Policy Issues and Perspectives” on December 13, 1991, provides a background on U.S., Mexican and Philippine patent laws. Highlights of the Budapest Treaty and patent protection on biotechnology are also discussed.biotechnology, patent and license, intellectual property rights

Macro Perspective and Cross-country Comparison of Patenting Issues

To stimulate technological development, it is necessary that intellectual property be clearly rewarded. It is not, therefore, surprising that international fora have discussed the issues of IPR and patents. This article, which has been presented during the DOST-PIDS Seminar-Discussion on “Intellectual Property Rights: Policy Issues and Perspectives” on December 13, 1991, provides a background on U.S., Mexican and Philippine patent laws. Highlights of the Budapest Treaty and patent protection on biotechnology are also discussed.biotechnology, patent and license, intellectual property rights

The Legal Framework for Science and Technology Development

This article is part of the seminar on “Science Technology Policies in the Philippines" jointly sponsored by PIDS and DOST on May 5, 1989. Researches show a positive relationship between expenditures for science and technology and the level of technological development/economic development. This article discusses the legal issues and provides legal framework on S&T development.science and technology, legal issues

Anti-phage islands force their target phage to directly mediate island excision and spread.

Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera, is antagonized by the lytic phage ICP1 in the aquatic environment and in human hosts. Mobile genetic elements called PLEs (phage-inducible chromosomal island-like elements) protect V. cholerae from ICP1 infection and initiate their anti-phage response by excising from the chromosome. Here, we show that PLE 1 encodes a large serine recombinase, Int, that exploits an ICP1-specific protein as a recombination directionality factor (RDF) to excise PLE 1 in response to phage infection. We show that this phage-encoded protein is sufficient to direct Int-mediated recombination in vitro and that it is highly conserved in all sequenced ICP1 genomes. Our results uncover an aspect of the molecular specificity underlying the conflict between a single predatory phage and V. cholerae PLE and contribute to our understanding of long-term evolution between phage and their bacterial hosts

Data for the paper on "Early school failure predicts teenage pregnancy and marriage: a large population-based cohort study in Northern Malawi"

The data originate from a demographic surveillance site (DSS) in Karonga district in northern Malawi covering a population of >35,000 individuals from approx. 8000 households since 2002. This is run by MEIRU (Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit). Annual individual and household-level socio-demographic and schooling data were combined with data on participants’ sexual behaviour, including age at sexual debut, pregnancy and marriage to examine the relationship between school progression (drop-out and age-for-grade) and sexual debut, pregnancy and marriage