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The continuous supply of electricity is the main concern of electric cooperatives (ECs) in the country, during times of natural calamities like strong typhoons or habagat (southwest monsoon) episodes. that topple down power lines and put entire communities in darkness. Similarly, this is every housewife’s nightmare, when electricity is out and she has to prepare the day’s meal.

Because of these fortuitous events, the National Electrification Administration or NEA, the government agency overseeing the electric cooperatives consulted the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards or Project NOAH for information regarding the changing weather patterns, natural hazards and their impact and disaster preparedness. The consultation is an important input in the formulation of the NEA’s  contingency plans.

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The latest biotechnology applications in the fields of health and medicine, food security and agriculture, and environment will be featured in the 10th Biotechnology Week which will run from November 24-28, 2014.

With the theme, “Edukasyon sa Bioteknolohiya: Pagyamanin para sa kinabukasan natin”, the National Biotechnology Week is an annual event organized by Departments of Science and Technology, Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources, Education, Health, Interior and Local Government, and Trade and Industry and Commission on Higher Education as this year’s lead agency.

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Believing in the potential of local inventors to contribute to the country’s intellectual and economic wealth, the Department of Science and Technology commits to enhance its services that support inventors.

“We are continuously looking for better ways to serve our clientele, including inventors,” DOST Secretary Mario G. Montejo said.

As such, Sec. Montejo instructed Dir. Edgar Garcia, head of DOST’s Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI), to facilitate 100 patent applications for the year. Patent is an intellectual property right granted exclusively to inventors “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention” throughout the country. TAPI is DOST’s lead agency in supporting local inventions and DOST’s arm for technology transfer and commercialization per Executive Order No. 128, which is also formerly known as Philippine Invention Development Institute prior to post-EDSA reorganization.

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Academician Carmencita D. Padilla said there should be an item for a genetics counsellor in the plantilla of secondary and tertiary hospitals in the country to help address the gaps in the treatment and services for rare disease patients in the Philippines.

The UP Manila College of Medicine professor made this statement during a Roundtable Discussion on Rare Diseases organized by the Department of Science and Technology’s National Academy of Science and Technology (DOST-NAST) held at Traders Hotel recently. Padilla is a DOST-NAST Academician.