Lecture:
‘’Bio-Technology’’
Explanation: Biotechnology uses living cells to
develop or manipulate products for specific purposes, such as
genetically modified foods.
Biotechnology is thus linked to genetic engineering and emerged as a
field in its own right at the beginning of the 20th century in the food
industry, which was later joined by other sectors such as medicine and
the environment. Today, the five branches into which modern
biotechnology is divided — human, environmental, industrial, animal
and plant — help us fight hunger and disease, produce more safely,
cleanly and efficiently, reduce our ecological footprint and save energy.
Biotechnological innovations: Biotechnological
innovations are already part of our daily lives and we find
them in pharmacies and supermarkets, among many other
places. In addition, in recent months biotechnology has
become one of the spearheads in the fight against the
COVID-19 global pandemic, since it helps to decipher the
virus' genome and understand how our body's defence
mechanism works against infectious agents.
Biotechnology will therefore play a crucial role in
the society of the future in preventing and containing
potential pathogens. But this is just one of its many
applications.
