The Future of Medical Biotechnology

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Medicine - Biomedical Engineering, grade: A, , course: Medical Biotechnology, language: English, abstract: This paper exclusively deals with medical biotechnology, which is the fusion of genetics, molecular biology and a number of other disciplines in biology to bring about advancements in medicine and health-science. There have been great advancements in the field of medical biotechnology due to the inculcation of new technique and practices such as PCR, cell cultures, recombinant DNA technology .etc. As the world is looking up to medical biotechnology to improve the lives and health of individuals in the coming years, we embark on a journey to explore some of the upcoming medical advancements offered by medical biotechnology. Some advancements being brought about in medical biotechnology have the ability to revolutionaries health-science in a manner we could have never imagined. Two such advancements in medical biotechnology that we will be exploring in this text include; the use of stem cells for regenerative medicine and the use of monoclonal anti-bodies for specific antibody-antigen response.