Biology At Crossroads
Published By: Seminar | Published Date: April, 12 , 2007The future of biology lies in integrating the knowledge of classical biologists, modern day genomics and bioinformatics with the language and skills of physical sciences, chemical sciences, engineering mechanics and mathematics. It would be worthwhile if a group of scientists from these diverse areas devise a curriculum that can be taught at the undergraduate level so that we have a new generation of biologists who can ask very different and challenging questions. This is already happening at some of the universities in the USA and UK. The Indian educational policy-makers should seriously think of this new biology so that we do not fall behind our counterparts in the West.
Author(s): M R S Rao | Posted on: Aug 08, 2005 | Views(2301) | Download (154)