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Fundamentals of Biotechnology (Hardcover)
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Fundamentals of Biotechnology (Hardcover)
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Biotechnology is technology that utilizes biological systems,
living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different
products. Biotechnology is a broad discipline in which biological
processes, organisms, cells or cellular components are exploited to
develop new technologies. New tools and products developed by
biotechnologists are useful in research, agriculture, industry and
the clinic. Modern biotechnology provides breakthrough products and
technologies to combat debilitating and rare diseases, reduce our
environmental footprint, feed the hungry, and use less and cleaner
energy, and have safer, cleaner and more efficient industrial
manufacturing processes.Brewing and baking bread are examples of
processes that fall within the concept of biotechnology (use of
yeast (= living organism) to produce the desired product). Such
traditional processes usually utilize the living organisms in their
natural form (or further developed by breeding), while the more
modern form of biotechnology will generally involve a more advanced
modification of the biological system or organism. With the
development of genetic engineering in the 1970s, research in
biotechnology (and other related areas such as medicine, biology
etc.) developed rapidly because of the new possibility to make
changes in the organisms' genetic material (DNA). Today,
biotechnology covers many different disciplines (e.g. genetics,
biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.). New technologies and
products are developed every year within the areas of e.g.
medicine, agriculture or industrial biotechnology (production of
chemicals, paper, textiles and food.)
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