Seema Kumari
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Posted 4 year ago

What is importance of biotechnology?

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pradeep negi
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Posted 4 year ago pradeep negi

Biotechnology is most important for its implications in health and medicine. Through genetic engineering – the controlled alteration of genetic material – scientists have been able to create new medicines, including interferon for cancer patients, synthetic human growth hormone and synthetic insulin, among others.

Rahila Ahmed
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Posted 4 year ago Rahila Ahmed

Biotechnology is technology that utilizes biological systems, living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different products.

purva Mangave
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Posted 4 year ago purva Mangave

Importance of Biotechnology in Healthcare and Medicines

  • Biopharmaceutical: This is the field in which the drugs are made with the help of biotechnology for medical purposes. ...
  • Pharmaco-Genomics: This field is a combination of pharmaceuticals and genomics. ...
  • Gene Therapy: It is one of the techniques of biotechnology which is used for the diagnosis of the diseases like Cancer, Parkinson’s etc. ...