Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof, and molecular analogues for products and services. Biotechnology is based on the basic biological sciences such as molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, embryology, genetics, and microbiology, and provides methods to support and perform basic research in biology. Biotechnology is the research and development in the laboratory using bioinformatics for exploration, extraction, exploitation, and production from any living organisms and any source of biomass by means of biochemical engineering where high value-added products could be planned, forecasted, formulated, developed, manufactured, and marketed for the purpose of sustainable operations and gaining returns from bottomless initial investment on R&D.

Biotechnology is technology based on biology, which harnesses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve human health and society. Biotech is helping to heal the world by harnessing natures own toolbox and using our own genetic makeup to heal and guide lines of research by reducing rates of infectious disease, saving millions of childrens lives, changing the odds of serious, life-threatening conditions affecting millions around the world, tailoring treatments to individuals to minimize health risks and side effects, creating more precise tools for disease detection, and combating serious illnesses and everyday threats confronting the developing world. Biotech uses biological processes such as fermentation and harnesses biocatalysts such as enzymes, yeast, and other microbes to become microscopic manufacturing plants. Biotech is helping to fuel the world by streamlining the steps in chemical manufacturing processes by 80% or more, lowering the temperature for cleaning clothes and potentially saving $4.1 billion annually, and improving crop insect resistance, enhancing crop herbicide tolerance, and facilitating the use of more environmentally sustainable farming practices.

In its broadest definition, biotechnology is the use of advances in molecular biology for applications in human and animal health, agriculture, environment, and specialty biochemical manufacturing. The biotechnology revolution, fueled by the sequencing of the human genome, will affect every aspect of the way we live, from our environment, to what we eat, to how we diagnose and treat illness. Biotechnology has improved the quality of our lives, and in the next decade, as the pace of advances in biotechnology accelerates, the scope and volume of biotechnology’s effects will be even greater. Biotechnology is also the interdisciplinary frontier between biology, engineering, medicine, and plant science, and is the scene of exciting scientific and technological developments in many areas of science.

Biotechnology is the use of biology to develop new products, methods, and organisms intended to improve human health and society. Biotechnology has existed since the beginning of civilization with the domestication of plants, animals, and the discovery of fermentation. The discipline has evolved significantly over the last century in ways that manipu...