{"id":113555,"date":"2020-09-29T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/saskatchewan-celebrates-science-during-global-biotech-week-with-online-events-and-activities"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:22:21","slug":"saskatchewan-celebrates-science-during-global-biotech-week-with-online-events-and-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/saskatchewan-celebrates-science-during-global-biotech-week-with-online-events-and-activities","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan Celebrates Science During Global Biotech Week with Online Events and Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saskatchewan-celebrates-science-during-global-biotech-week-with-online-events-and-activities.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Science of Beer to learning about the benefits of GMOs; Saskatchewan is celebrating science with exciting online events and activities that showcase the province\u2019s bioscience sector. Ag-West Bio, Saskatchewan\u2019s bioscience industry association, coordinates events with the help of a local committee.<\/p>\n<p>Ag-West Bio President and CEO Karen Churchill says amid the COVID-19 pandemic, biotechnology is in the spotlight. \u201cSaskatchewan organizations in our research cluster have joined the global effort to develop vaccines as well as preventative and treatment solutions to deal with the virus. As a community, we should take note of the achievements of our local scientists and companies. Global Biotech Week gives us an opportunity to give them a (virtual) pat on the back!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Saskatchewan and the Cities of Regina and Saskatoon have proclaimed September 28 to October 4 as Global Biotech Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Science of Beer to learning about the benefits of GMOs; Saskatchewan is celebrating science with exciting online events and activities that showcase the province\u2019s bioscience sector. Ag-West Bio, Saskatchewan\u2019s bioscience industry association, coordinates events with the help of a local committee. Ag-West Bio President and CEO Karen Churchill says amid the COVID-19 pandemic, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}