The Biotechnology Curriculum provides students with fundamental knowledge and laboratory skills in biotechnology, with focus areas in molecular biology, genetics, genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics.
- Biotechnology is a science-based on biology. Every life form is based on DNA. Biotechnology has many advantages in many areas. For instance, in the medical field, we can select the vitamins and minerals in order to boost the nutritional value of plants.
- Biotechnology definition is - the manipulation (as through genetic engineering) of living organisms or their components to produce useful usually commercial products (such as pest resistant crops, new bacterial strains, or novel pharmaceuticals); also: any of various applications of biological science used in such manipulation.
- Modern biotechnology is providing breakthroughs that are helping fight diseases, reduce carbon footprints and feed the hungry. From looking at saliva to unearthing new clues on evolution to finding a new treatment for the Zika virus, biotechnology science is a burgeoning field that continues to evolve and make a difference in our lives.
- At its simplest, biotechnology is technology based on biology - biotechnology harnesses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet. We have used the biological processes of microorganisms for more than 6,000 years to make useful.
Biotechnology is technology that utilizes biological systems, living organisms or parts of this to develop or create different products.
Brewing and baking bread are examples of processes that fall within the concept of biotechnology (use of yeast (= living organism) to produce the desired product). Such traditional processes usually utilize the living organisms in their natural form (or further developed by breeding), while the more modern form of biotechnology will generally involve a more advanced modification of the biological system or organism.
With the development of genetic engineering in the 1970s, research in biotechnology (and other related areas such as medicine, biology etc.) developed rapidly because of the new possibility to make changes in the organisms' genetic material (DNA).
Today, biotechnology covers many different disciplines (eg. genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.). New technologies and products are developed every year within the areas of eg. medicine (development of new medicines and therapies), agriculture (development of genetically modified plants, biofuels, biological treatment) or industrial biotechnology (production of chemicals, paper, textiles and food).
Studies in Biotechnology and Food Science at NTNU
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