| A combination of several important branches of | | | | health-care products. These plants provide |
| science such as biology, medical science, agriculture | | | | cost-effective medicines. All the production |
| and food science gives rise to a new and reliable | | | | procedures involved in the manufacturing of |
| technology that is ‘Biotechnology'. This | | | | medicines are simple and secure. It uses the concepts |
| technology is highly potential and uses the ideas and | | | | of Genomics and Genetic engineering that has |
| concepts of various streams of science. | | | | created wonders in the world of medicines |
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| Genetic Engineering forms the basis of this | | | | With the aid of Biotechnology, the pharmaceutical |
| technology that is the cell and tissue culture of plants | | | | engineers have found out the solutions that can |
| and animals. It takes the knowledge from several | | | | efficiently fight against various life taking diseases |
| branches of science such as cell biology, microbiology, | | | | such as multiple sclerosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, |
| biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics. The | | | | hemophilia, arthritis, cancer and various cardiovascular |
| ideas and concepts taken from all these streams are | | | | disorders. Biotechnological industries have contributed |
| used chiefly for the extension and modification of | | | | significantly towards the medical world by developing |
| living organisms. This technology has provided | | | | efficient medicines that can cure many deadly and |
| answers to innumerable unanswered questions. It also | | | | life-threatening diseases. |
| includes the nurturing of plants and animals. By | | | | |
| implementing several methods such as artificial | | | | This technology has not only contributed to the field |
| selection, breeding and hybridization, several types of | | | | of medical science but also shown its magic in other |
| plants are cultivated in the Biotechnological plants. | | | | sectors also such as veterinary science, agriculture, |
| | | | | nutrition, food and food additive industries, cosmetics |
| Biotechnological plants are actively involved in the | | | | etc. Thus the biotechnological plants have given new |
| production of useful medicines and several other | | | | heights of success to pharmaceutical engineering. |