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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Flat.. or Round? - For and against Science
For and against Science? This is apparently the image presented at the Global Irish Economic Forum by Green Minister Eamonn Ryan who on the one hand wants to promote Green technology but on the other hand wants to have Ireland declared a country where all food items linked to GM will be banned.
Not only does this appear to be impractical but it also seriously detracts from Ireland’s reputation as a country that is open to scientific research in all fields of research and development.
When so much of our economy today rests on exploring all aspects and branches of scientific research and development- and more relevantly the appliance of science, it is baffling to see the logic underlying the green party ministers proposals.
Why should one aspect or application of science be more or less deserving of merit than another?
Given the increase in the human population in the past twenty years alone, climate changes leading to less and less useable land given over to agriculture, crops will need to be hardier and different kinds of crops will need to be developed to meet just some of these challenges.
To take a dubious moral high ground that seeks to ignore and discredit a complete strand of science and the scientific and practical benefits of genetically modified foods is ignorant and shortsighted. Worse it is stating to the Scientific World that we do not understand the very basis of science and do not have any credibility in claiming to be a progressive and pro-scientfic country.
GM research and development (R&D)has real scientific merit and the potential to create jobs where this country desperately needs them.
If we declare Ireland a GM free zone, then also we deny reality and pass opportunity to our competitors who will surely reap the rewards. We will also contribute further to the brain drain that is becoming more and more a threat to the Irish Scientific Research community.
But perhaps science and reason will yet prevail- after all there was a time when people believed the Earth was flat…
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Research and Development in Biotechnology
R&D continues to witness increasing growth despite the downturn taking place in Ireland as new announcements have continued to be made by multinational companies involved in areas such as Medical Devices, Biopharma and Pharmaceutical manufacturing.
R&D or Research and Development has resulted in greater career prospects at home for Irelands science and technical professionals who continue to gain international respect for their work in fields as diverse as polymer technology, advanced medical products, telecommunications software and hardware.
As a result there has been a major increase in demand for R&D managers, R&D Engineers and Research associates carrying out front line research which has had the spin off effect of an increase in demand for Quality Assurance Managers and Engineers in addition to Regulatory Affairs professionals who form part of the collective support structure required for this ever increasing technical environment.
Recruitment is brisk and demand for science professionals for all these sectors is steadily increasing at a pace that seems to defy the current economic trend. Long may it continue
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Medical Devices
Welcome again to myscience jobs. Today we will look at the Medical Devices manufacturing industry and the growth in Medical devices job opportunities.
What are medical devices and why has there been such growth? Medical devices consist of an extremely wide variety of products used with a medical purpose in patients applied to such aspects as diagnostics, therapy or surgical and the effect is generally physical.
They can be as simple as tongue depressors or as complex as minute plastic components such as filter components used in kidney dialysis or as intricate as x-ray machines. Growth then has followed swiftly as a direct result of rapid advances in science and scientific discoveries which have in turn led to new applications of advanced materials; for instance, plastics or exotic polymers which have in turn resulted in the manufacturability of minute vascular components which to manufacture less than a decade ago were undreamt of in term the size and quality that are now commonplace.
Further still we have seen the application of plastics in the manufacture of products expand to as diverse a range of products as gas permeable contact lenses, prosthetic limbs, monitoring devices, pacemakers and cheap disposable hypodermics which can now be manufactured in the millions. This has resulted in a massive reduction in cost, allowing access to clean, safe, healthcare / medical devices previously beyond the financial affordability of many people who suffer from long term illnesses requiring for instance the application of insuline, morphine or other life term medicines.
Small wonder then that Ireland has seen an explosion in the number of medical device manufacturing companies which have decided to capitalise on our local skill base and opted to set up in Ireland. These multinationals range from Boston Scientific, to Johnson and Johnson. The consequence of these companies opening here then is a corresponding increase in demand for skilled polymer/process engineers, materials and quality research specialists amongst others to service these state of the art manufacturing facilities that continue to thrive despite a global economic downturn.
Opportunities do exist for those who are qualified and experienced, and for those Irish agencies who are specialists in the fields of medical recruitment, recruiting for moulding technicians and process engineers amongst others, myscience jobs can proudly say that Jackie Brown Medical is well placed as a lead specialist life science recruitment firm in Irish Science Jobs for recruiting for the expanding medical device manufacuring market that continues to offer careers with the potential for professional growth.
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Saving and Serving Millions -Microsofts new Data Center sited in Dublin
A good day to you from My science jobs on this cool but dry day where it pays to be cool!
Who’d have ever thought that the Irish weather would be a reason why science jobs would come to Ireland?
Serious! It appears that the Irish weather is one of the primary reasons why Microsoft have chosen to site a state of the art Data center in Dublin over several other competing potential sites globally. This site costing over €500 million has already directly resulted in Microsoft and supplier firms recruiting for hundreds of new science jobs and technical related disciplines in the fields of IT and Telecommunications. It will no doubt result in hundreds if not thousands of additional science jobs being created as it supports Irelands existing science and technical infrastructure.
So why choose Ireland then?
Answer;-because it appears the weather is neither too hot or too cold, the new Data Center will not need the normally required and expensive to run cooling towers and heating /ventilation systems. These use prodigeous amounts of electricity and are essential to support the servers operating parameters.
Consider if you will then, that these servers run 365 days a year 24 hours a day -that is a lot of electricity even a small reduction in use then can have massive direct savings. In the case of the new facility this can run into savings in the order of millions. So before it starts, it has already the new site has already saved money. To be cool; stay tuned to mysciencejobs.com for further news and the best science jobs.
For opportunities in Telecommunications and high speed data communications and related scientific fields of science and technology, please visit Irelands best recruitment agency Jackie Brown medical.
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