Science Journalism

This semester I decided to return to my scientific side, so I joined the science journalism class. The subject is “Communication, science and society”, I have learned many interesting things about science, and how that information can be transfer to society. 

The important thing is that helps you to know what are the policies that the country with respect to advances both scientific and technological.  Among the policies that I learned, Genetically modified food is so interesting. Are foods produced from organisms that have had changes introduced into their DNA using the methods of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering techniques allow for the introduction of new traits as well as greater control over traits than previous methods such as selective breeding and mutation breeding. 

Before knowing some things about genetically modified food, I saw the transgenics as a bad thing, but not now. It's just a technological tool, the problem is not the use of the technique, but is in the abuse occurs today with large hectares production.

within the activities to investigate Genetically modified food, we went to a laboratory of molecular genetics, where we can discussed the labeled products and the large number of transgenic seeds that are exporting Chile, such as soy that is one hundred percent transgenic.