Biotechnology: a short course to understanding
April 22, 2009 – 7:54 am
If we are asked what science was developed rapidly now adays, maybe we should said that was biotechnology. Biotechnology is kind of branch of sciences that study technology based on life science. If technology study everything without predict and know how were held in life cell, biotechnology will try to answer it.
Biotechnology is defined as integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, pasrts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services [1]. It also describes as a field of technological activity in hich biochemical, genetic, microbiological, and engineering techniques are combined for the pursuit of technical and applied aspects of research into biological materials, in particular, into biological processing. It includes traditional technologies such as fermentation process, antibiotic production, and sewage treatment, as well as newer ones such as biomolecular engineering, and single-cell protein production (SCP) [2].
In biochemistry, especially in molecular biochemistry we will study technique, genetic manipulation or genetic engineering, and any related else. Some of them are ELISA (enzyme linked immuno assay), DNA Characterization Assay, Thiobarbituric Acid Assay (TBA), Fermentation which is used to knowing in industrial nowadays, Single-Cell Protein Screening, and Biotoxicity Assay.
[1] European Federation of Biotechnology General Assembly 1989.
[2] include [1] Smith AD.2000.Oxford DIctionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. New York: Oxford University Press.
