Biotechnology: what it is and how it's about to change our lives
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.
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 could biotechnology improve your life? - The World …
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 ...
Biotechnology: From transforming healthcare to transforming our …
2023年9月14日 · Embracing biotechnology as the world’s go-to commercialization technology serves as a pro-environment alternative that permits industries to move beyond fossil inputs and deliver progress on the SDGs. Mobility represents one area where biotechnology has already been quietly delivering sustainable commercial alternatives.
6 expert essays on the future of biotech | World Economic Forum
2020年1月23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.”
Biotech can provide solutions to the global food crisis | World ...
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 …
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.
How biotechnology is evolving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
2018年5月16日 · Furthermore, contemporary biotechnology has produced biomaterials including polysaccharides (microbial cellulose), proteins (spider silk), and even formerly synthetic polymers (polylactate and poly[lactate-co-glycolate]) by fermentation of engineered microorganisms.
How biotech can revolutionize healthcare for the future | World ...
2022年11月3日 · For example, biotechnology in healthcare has maximized effectiveness by increasing medical personalization and individually designed treatments. In this direction, pairing biotech with AI and big data will help digest the complex data generated by the healthcare industry – unlocking deeper and richer patterns for treatment.
5 innovations that are revolutionizing global healthcare
2023年2月22日 · Healthcare innovation is accelerating at an unprecedented scale, the WHO says. From AI to gene editing, here are 5 innovations that are pushing boundaries.