KINGSTON – A new three-credit course at the University of Rhode Island called “Issues in Biotechnology” aims to teach undergraduate students and the general public about DNA, genetics and many current applications of biotechnology.
Most of the course will focus on the use of biotech in medical applications, such as the use of stem cells, gene therapy and xenotransplantation (transplanting animal organs into humans). Other aspects will address agricultural, forensic, marine and pharmaceutical uses of biotechnology.
The course also will include discussions of ethical and social implications of biotechnology as well as descriptions of career opportunities in the biotech field. The professors who designed the class, assistant professor Marta Gomez-Chiarri and visiting associate professor Albert Kausch, are encouraging high school and middle school teachers to take the course so they can introduce their classes to biotech.
GTECH wins contract in
Spain
WEST GREENWICH – GTECH Corp. recently announced that it has signed a five-year contract worth more than $15 million to provide an online gaming solution and handheld lottery terminals to a lottery operator in Spain.
GTECH will install a turnkey online lottery system – which includes central-system hardware and software – and provide the lottery with a non-exclusive software license and other services. The lottery, known as the Spanish National Organization for the Blind, will receive approximately 7,000 handheld terminals, GTECH said. The global information-technology company has teamed up with Ingenico Iberia, the Spanish subsidiary of Ingenico S.A. to produce a secure handheld lottery terminal for the visually-impaired.
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