el-Gewely M R
Department of Biotechnology, University of Tromsø, Norway.
Biotechnol Annu Rev. 1995;1:5-68. doi: 10.1016/s1387-2656(08)70047-4.
Biotechnology and the use of biologically based agents for the betterment of mankind is an active field which is founded on the interaction between many basic sciences. This is achieved in coordination with engineering and technology for scaling up purposes. The application of modern recombinant DNA technology gave momentum and new horizons to the field of biotechnology both in the academic setting and in industry. The applications of biotechnology are being used in many fields including agriculture, medicine, industry, marine science and the environment. The final products of biotechnological applications are diverse. In the medical applications of biotechnology, for example, the field has been evolving in such a way that the final product could be a small molecule (e.g. drug/antibiotic) that can be developed based on genetic information by drug design or drug screening using a cloned and expressed target protein.
