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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is ramping up the production of low-cost ceramic water filter to be distributed to the typhoon-affected families in Leyte province.

The effort is part of the DOST-wide relief project for Visayas is dubbed “Sulong Tabang” or S&T sa Visayas. Tabang is the Visayan word for “help.”

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Science advocates have tapped the universal medium of film to communicate the advantages of biotechnology as the new short film competition Cine Bioteknolohiya 2013 handed out its first awards during the recently concluded National Biotechnology Week (NBW).

Dr. Virginia N. Enriquez of the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCIEERD) and one of the contest judges, believes film is a powerful strategy for spreading the good news about biotechnology. “If you have visuals, these create a different kind of impact on the audience. In a way, it integrates information into people’s everyday sense of things, making them realize that technology or science is not far from the human experience,” Dr. Enriquez explained.

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In celebration of its 80th Foundation Anniversary on December 8, 2013, the DOST National Research Council of the Philippines (DOST-NRCP) named Dr. Joseph R. Cumagun, a Professor 6 and Scientist II from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna, as the 2013 Dr. Eusebio Y. Garcia Awardee for his exceptional researches in molecular biology and plant pathology.

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The 2013 National Biotechnology Week (NBW), organized by the Department of Education (DepEd) in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and other government agencies, recently honored the country’s top science and technology (S&T) journalists in the 2013 Jose G. Burgos Jr. Awards for Biotech Journalism.