Handbook of Competitive Biotechnology
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Biotechnology : an overview. 1. Cell Biology. 2. Biochemistry. 3. Clinical biochemistry. 4. Enzymology. 5. Immunology. 6. Moelcular biology and genetic engineering. 7. Bioprocess engineering. 8. Microbial genetics. 9. Microbial physiology. 10. Microbiology. 11. Plant biotechnology. 12. Animal biotechnology. 13. Biophysics. 14. Tools and techniques. 15. Cell biology. 16. Biochemistry. 17. Clinical biochemistry. 18. Enzymology. 19. Immunology. 20. Molecular biology and genetic engineering. 21. Fermentation and bioprocess technology. 22. Microbial physiology and genetics. 23. Plant biotechnology. 24. Animal biotechnology. 25. Biophysics. 26. Tools and techniques. Appendices.
The term biotechnology was used for the first time by Karl Erkey, a Hungarian Engineer in 1919. Although biotechnology has been an integral part of ancient civilization as per records, it has evolved into a comprehensive yet elaborate, extensive yet precise and indispensible subject for research being rooted and connected to all basic areas of life sciences in terms of research and analysis.
Biotechnology is based on use of biological agents, systems and mechanisms for generation of useful products and service by application of tools and techniques for overall benefit to mankind. It encompasses the intricacies of all branches of life science, amalgamating them with broad research areas of environment, agriculture, pollution, drugs and pharmaceuticals, vaccines, detailed structure of bio-molecules and their functions.
An altogether new era has dawned upon biotechnology as a result of which its has endowed and empowered us with novel, modified and improved products. These products have become a source of economic upliftment and development, which are also proved to be foundation stones for industries and capital generation. We are living in the age of genomics which has further evolved into proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics etc. and new branches based on application of software programmes for data research, analysis and interpretation-bioinformatics and biostatistics.
Biotechnology thus offers a plethora of opportunities and avenues to people who wish to pursue their career in biotechnology. Keeping this in view, the present book was planned and designed as a source of crisp, concise and complete information under one roof.
