Biotechnology and Healthcare

Modern Biotechnology

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In modern biotechnology, researchers transform DNA and proteins to shape the capabilities of living cells, plants, and animals into somewhat useful for humans. Biotechnologists do this by sequencing, or reading, the DNA found in nature, and then operating it in a test tube – or, more recently, inside of living cells. The most exciting biotechnology developments of recent times are occurring at the microscopic level within the membranes of cells. After years of basic research into decoding the chemical and genetic makeup of cells, biologists their work has brought us the powerful cellular tools at biotechnologists disposal today. In the coming decades, scientists will use the tools of biotechnology to function cells with increasing control, from precision editing of DNA to synthesizing entire genomes from their basic chemical building blocks.  And biotechnology may be significantly fight against climate change.