BIOTECHNOLOGY: PROCESS AND APPLICATION
BIOTECHNOLOGY: - PROCESS AND APPLICATION Def.-“Biotechnology is a branch of biology which deals with the techniques of using live organisms, enzymes or biological processes to produce products and provides services for human welfare.” The new definition of modern biotechnology given by EFB( The European Federation of Biotechnology) Def-“Biotechnology is the integration of natural science and organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services.” “The science which deals with the synthesis of artificial genes, repair of gene, combination of genes from two organisms & manipulation of artificial genes for improvement of living organisms is called genetic engineering”. RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY : The idea for recombinant DNA was first proposed by Peter Lobban, a graduate student of Prof. Dale Kaiser in the Biochemistry Department at Stanford University Medical School. The first publications describing the successful production and intracellul...
Good information for the Biology students.
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I Like to add one more important thing here, The global synthetic biology market is expected to be around US$ 15 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 20% in given forecast period.
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