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Faculty of Biotechnology Department
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Activities:
Biotechnology is a branch of biological science that are used to live or change organisms or products derived from them. Major activities of this group include theoretical and practical teaching of courses for students and general pharmaceutical drug, including Biotechnology and cell molecular biology, molecular biotechnology, biological products, cell culture, microbial control drugs, genetic engineering, biotechnology processes, and secondary metabolites; general Thesis and specialized research projects to clones genes in biological drug products to determine the polymorphism gene, gene therapy and vectors designed for non-viral gene transfer, gene expression set manufacture code and the effect of drug resistance in cancer agents before of inflammatory genes mentioned, genotyping species of Conifers, anti-tumor effects of native plant extracts of Iran.
Biotechnology
 
Biological technology is technology based on biology, especially when used in agriculture, food science, and medicine. The United NationsConvention on Biological Diversityhas come up with one of many definitions of biotechnology:
"Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use."
Before the 1970s, the term, biotechnology, was primarily used in the food processing and agriculture industries. Since the 1970s, it began to be used by the Western scientific establishment to refer to laboratory-based techniques being developed in biological research, such as recombinant DNA or tissue culture-based processes. In fact, the term should be used in a much broader sense to describe the whole range of methods, both ancient and modern, used to manipulate organic matter to meet human needs. So the term can be defined as, "The application of indigenous and/or scientific knowledge to the management of (parts of) microorganisms, or of cells and tissues of higher organisms, so that these supply goods and services of use to human beings.
There has been a great deal of talk - and money - poured into biotechnology with the hope that miracle drugs will appear. While there do seem to be a small number of efficacious drugs, in general the biotech revolution has not happened in the pharmaceutical sector. However, recent progress with monoclonal antibody based drugs, such as Gene tech's Avastin (tm) suggest that biotech may finally have found a role in pharmaceutical sales.
Biotechnology combines disciplines like genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology and cell biology, which are in turn linked to practical disciplines like chemical engineering, information technology, and robotics.
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