The biotechnology international industry is a horizontal discipline that combines extensive scientific and technological knowledge and involves the use of various techniques like: recombinant DNA, bioprocesses, cell and tissue culture, etc. in the intervention to improve production and achieve the solution of problems associated with products and processes of multiple productive sectors: as agriculture, food, textiles, health, cellulose and paper, environment, among others.
How the Biotechnology international industry works?
The biotechnology international industry, also known as Industrial Biotechnology (B.I.), uses living cells (bacteria, yeasts, algae, animal cells) and their components, such as enzymes or nucleic acids, to generate products and processes. The classic definition of Biotechnology made by the OECD in 1987, included in that word, both the “bio” (basic, molecular biology) and technology, engineering. With the rapid, wide and incessant development of biotechnology in human health, it tarnished the other sectors (in the late 1990s the application through transgenic seeds, highlighted the impact on agriculture) that appear strongly in the last 10 years and leads to a broad consideration of biotechnology international industry including all productive sectors.
B.I. is used, in addition to biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and new diagnoses in human and animal health, for new products such as biodegradable plastics of origin in plants and microorganisms or bioplastics from biomass; It begins to replace biomass with oil from biorefineries that can produce energy (biofuels), materials and chemicals.
This new technology, commonly known as biotechnology, is marking a turning point for a change in production model and services, but also because of its life sciences character, it influences an industrialist view but with greater responsibility for common goods., such as health, environment, climates, food.
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