Biotechnology: what it is and how it's about to change our lives
2016年12月20日 · Biotechnology is a broad range of technologies that employ living organisms or parts of them to make diverse products. For example, drugs and therapeutics, nutritional compounds, environmentally friendly chemicals and materials, biofuels, and novel functional materials can be produced through biotechnology. More broadly, medical biotechnology ...
Biotechnology: From transforming healthcare to transforming our …
2023年9月14日 · Biotechnology beyond medicine is actively helping us to achieve the SDGs in an inconspicuous yet powerful fashion at a time when meaningful progress is crucial. Medical biotechnology (red biotech) has been transformative to our overall health and life expectancy, but leveraging biology as technology isn’t limited to breakthroughs in medicine ...
How biotech can revolutionize healthcare for the future
2022年11月3日 · Biotech and its applications are rapidly evolving and have the potential to revolutionize industries, including healthcare. But forward-thinking businesses, governments and academia need to work together to realize biotechnology's full promise. C4IR Serbia recently launched at the Biotech Future Forum as biotech was revealed to be the country's ...
Biotech can provide solutions to the global food crisis
2023年1月17日 · Biotechnology holds part of the key to enabling a transformation of our economy and our food systems. While in the past, we have mainly focused on offering farmers sustainable alternatives to chemical pesticides and food waste reduction, for instance by extending the shelf-life of products, the current innovative biotechnological solutions are offering society at large the possibility to shift ...
6 expert essays on the future of biotech | World Economic Forum
2020年1月6日 · Biotechnology is a rapidly changing field that continues to transform both in scope and impact. Karl Ereky first coined the term biotechnology in 1919. However, biotechnology’s roots trace back to as early as the 1600s when a Prussian physician, Georg Ernst Stahl, pioneered a new fermentation technology referred to as “zymotechnology.”
Biosolutions: A clear path to fighting climate change
2022年5月23日 · Biotechnology provides powerful solutions to many of today’s climate, health and sustainability challenges, but implementing them comes with its own set of issues. Transformative biosolutions face long approval processes before they can be released on the market, making the development of new and more sustainable products less attractive.
Four problems that biotechnology can help solve - The World …
2016年6月27日 · Biotechnology offers some of the most promising and targeted ways to find solutions to these threats. For example, the British company Oxitec, a subsidiary of Intrexon Corporation, offers a technology to control the spread of a single species of insect, Aedes aegypti, the primary vector for dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus outbreaks around ...
How biotechnology is evolving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
2018年5月16日 · How biotechnology is evolving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. When modern biotechnology emerged in the late 1970s, it was first applied in the health sector, with the onset of recombinant DNA. One decade later, the same molecular approaches reached the agricultural and food industries, not without controversy.
How could biotechnology improve your life? - The World …
2013年2月25日 · Biotechnology has the potential to provide the platforms needed for rapid identification of biological threats, development of potential cures and global manufacturing of the solutions. Identification of better targets and combined use of nanotechnology and information technology are making it possible to develop rapid, accurate, personalized ...
How to speed up the biomanufacturing revolution
2021年12月22日 · 2. Scale. Increasing access to scale in both the development and deployment of biomanufacturing solutions is needed to accelerate growth of the bioeconomy. Here's how: Strategic partnerships across large platform developers, application-specific technologies, and mature consumer-facing companies can accelerate biomanufacturing product development.