What is Biotechnology? - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
"using living things to create products or to do tasks for humans"
About Biotechnology - Biotech
Biotechnology is the practice of using plants, animals and micro-organisms such as bacteria, as well as biological processes - such as the ripening of fruit or the bacteria that break down compost , the fermentation of alcohol for some benefit.
For example, biotechnology is used in in industry, medicine and agriculture to produce foods, medicines, test for diseases and remove waste.
Biotechnology has formed the basis of learning about people and diseases and has underpinned the development of treatments.
Human application:
- Fighting infectious diseases
- Antibiotics
- Producing human products
- Reproductive technologies
- The human genome project
- Genetic disorders
- Gene therapy
- Cloning
- Stem cells
- Transplantation
- DNA profiling
Environmental applications:
- Biological control of pests
- Protecting species
- Cleaning up and managing the environment
Agriculture and food production applications:
- increase crop or animal resistance to pests while reducing the use of chemicals
- increase crop or animal tolerance to chemicals that are used to kill harmful pests
- create disease resistance in crops and animals
- improve the food yield per plant or animal
- make plants and animals more suited to special environmental conditions such as drier regions or saline water
- improve the nutritional quality of the food produced by the plant or animal.
- Gene technology is also being used to deliver benefits in the forestry and fishery industries.
News Articles
Biogen Idec to Present at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual dbAccess Healthcare Conference
Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) announced today that it will present at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual dbAccess Healthcare Conference. The webcast will be live on Thursday, May 30...
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) invites leaders from the biotechnology, chemical and agricultural industries to submit proposals and abstracts for panels, individual...
BIO Welcomes EPA Proposed Rule on New RFS2 Pathways
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today welcomed the opportunity for public comment on proposed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) amendments and clarifications, which inc...
Piper Jaffray Expands Healthcare Investment Banking, Appoints Head of West Coast Biotechnology
Piper Jaffray (NYSE: PJC), a leading investment bank and asset management firm, today announced that Andrew Gitkin joined the firm as managing director and head of West Coa...
Baxter to Present at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual dbAccess Health Care Conference
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced today that it will present at the Deutsche Bank 38th Annual dbAccess Health Care Conference on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 7:00 a.m....
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Added to NASDAQ Biotechnology Index
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACAD), a biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative treatments that address unmet medical needs in neurological and related central nervo...
SEATTLE, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Biomarkers and Clinigene International are set to unveil their collaborative laboratory solutions for developers of biosimilars at the 2013 AAPS/ Nat...
Sony Delivers New Technology for Science to CYTO 2013
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Biotechnology Inc. ("Sony") today announced the launch of the new SH800 Cell Sorter 8-well strip holder and 130um sorting chip. Sony will...
Sony Biotechnology Inc.'s New Technology for Science Provides Researchers Results in Color
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Biotechnology Inc. ("Sony") today announced the launch of the new Sony SP6800 Spectral Analyzer (SP6800). Sony will be exhibiting and taki...
Puma Biotechnology Comment on Trading Activity
Puma Biotechnology, Inc. (NYSE: PBYI), a development stage biopharmaceutical company, has been contacted by the New York Stock Exchange regarding today’s trading in the Companyâ...
Events
BIOLATAM 2013 - Partnering and Conference
Meeting point biotechnology business Latin American
Companies
Neovacs is a French biotechnology company focused on active immunotherapy for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and cancer. Neovacs is a spin-off from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in P...
WIL Research Company, Inc. is a privately held global Contract Research Organization that provides product safety toxicological research, bioanalytical, and formulation services t...
Founded more than 35 years ago, Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening me...
BIO and ABFA and ABO and A4A and AFBF and Growth Energy and Pew Charitable Trusts
BIO represents more than 1,100 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 o...
PlandaÃÂ Biotechnology, Inc.
Plandaí Biotechnology, Inc. intends to transform the world of nutraceuticals by making available extracts from live plant material that deliver the highest levels of bioavailability curr...
Plasticell is a pioneering biotechnology company that specialises in the differentiation of stem cells to obtain cell types for a range of biomedical applications. Founded in 2002, Plasticell has as...
Xenetic is a leading UK-based biopharmaceutical company providing leading-edge expertise in the development of a whole new generation of drugs and vaccines. Working with some of the largest pharma...
BioNova - The Nova Scotia Biotechnology and Life Sciences Industry Association
BioNova was incorporated in 1993 in response to rapid growth in Nova Scotia’s biotechnology and life sciences sector. Since that time, we have advanced alongside our members to offer advocacy and de...
Puma Biotechnology, Inc. is a development stage biopharmaceutical company that acquires and develops innovative products for the treatment of various forms of cancer. The Company...
Seattle Genetics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of monoclonal antibody-based therapies for the treatment of cancer and...
Clinical Trials
A Pilot Scheme - Specimen Collection of Health Management Center
Biomedical and biotechnology industry is internationally regarded as the most brilliant star performer of the future. The development of biomedical depends on a high quality academic resea...
This study will be a Phase I, randomized, double blind, safety and immunogenicity trial of the Vero cell based 116E neonatal rotavirus vaccine candidate strain in healthy non-malnourished...
PubMed Articles
Culturing Pseudozyma aphidis on glucose as main carbon source and soybean oil as co-substrate the mannosylerythritol lipids MEL-A and MEL-B were produced. Based on their excellent surface/interfacial...
Abnormal releases of neurotransmitters result in movement disorders such as dystonia, chorea, tics, blepharospasm and wrinkle formation, and intra-muscular injection of Botulinum neurotoxin is widely...
Autophagy promotes survival in aging submerged cultures of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger.
Autophagy is a well-conserved catabolic process constitutively active in eukaryotes that is involved in maintaining cellular homeostasis by the targeting of cytoplasmic content and organelles to vacuo...
Genome Shuffling of Penicillium citrinum for Enhanced Production of Nuclease P1.
Genome shuffling is a powerful approach for efficiently engineering industrial microbial strains with interested phenotypes. Here we reported a high producer of nuclease P1, Penicillium citrinum G-16,...
Stachybotrys microspora is a filamentous fungus secreting multiple β-glucosidases. Two of them were characterized. The third one, named bglG, was also characterized and used for various investigation...
Biotransformation of L-ornithine from L-arginine using whole-cell recombinant arginase.
A recombinant arginase was generated for a whole-cell biotransformation system to convert L-arginine to L-ornithine in Escherichia coli. The gene ARG1 coding arginase from Bos taurus liver was synthes...
The present study aimed at a comparative characterization of two distinct extracellular monocrotophos hydrolases, from Penicillium aculeatum ITCC 7980.10 (M3) and Fusarium pallidoroseum ITCC 7785.10 (...
In eukaryotes, cell morphogenesis is regulated coordinately with the cell cycle. In fission yeast, the morphogenesis network MOR (morphogenesis Orb6 network) consists of 5 conserved proteins, Pmo25, N...
Screening and Characterization of Novel Bacteriocins from Lactic Acid Bacteria.
Bacteriocins produced by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are expected to be safe antimicrobial agents. While the best studied LAB bacteriocin, nisin A, is widely utilized as a food preservative, various no...
Determination by LC-MS of Juvenile Hormone Titers in Hemolymph of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori.
Juvenile hormone (JH) I, II and III in the hemolymph of the silkworm, Bombyx mori were quantified by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). JHs were treated with methanol and trifluoroacetic...
Videos
Biotechnology at the Cutting Edge
Get an introduction to some of today's top researchers and the basics of biotechnology biofuel, genetics, health, and agriculture. This video features interv...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Pubmed
A bibliographic database that includes MEDLINE as its primary subset. It is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE. PubMed, which is searchable through NLM's Web site, also includes access to additional citations to selected life sciences journals not in MEDLINE, and links to other resources such as the full-text of articles at participating publishers' Web sites, NCBI's molecular biology databases, and PubMed Central.
Optical Tweezers
A technique that uses LASERS to trap, image, and manipulate small objects (biomolecules, supramolecular assembles, DENDRIMERS) in three dimensional space. (From Glossary of Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology Terms, 4th ed.)
Nanocomposites
Nanometer-scale composite structures composed of organic molecules intimately incorporated with inorganic molecules. (Glossary of Biotechnology and Nanobiotechology Terms, 4th ed)
Nanocapsules
Nanometer-sized, hollow, spherically-shaped objects that can be utilized to encapsulate small amounts of pharmaceuticals, enzymes, or other catalysts (Glossary of Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology, 4th ed).
Cells, Immobilized
Microbial, plant, or animal cells which are immobilized by attachment to solid structures, usually a column matrix. A common use of immobilized cells is in biotechnology for the bioconversion of a substrate to a particular product. (From Singleton & Sainsbury, Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 2d ed)
