Editor's Note

Promising Times Ahead For The Biotech Companies

The term 'biotechnology' encompasses a wide range of procedures for modifying living things for human use, going back to the domestication of animals and the cultivation of plants, as well as 'improvements' made to these through breeding programmes that make use of artificial selection and hybridization. Modern applications include genetic engineering and cell and tissue culture techniques. Biotechnology is defined by the American Chemical Society as the use of biological organisms, systems, or processes by a variety of businesses to learn about life science and enhance...  >>More