Biotechnology: what it is and how it's about to change our lives
网页2016年12月20日 · Biotechnology is a broad range of technologies that employ living organisms or parts of them to make diverse products. For example, drugs and therapeutics, nutritional compounds, environmentally friendly chemicals and materials, biofuels, and novel functional materials can be produced through biotechnology. More broadly, medical …
Biotechnology: From transforming healthcare to transforming our …
网页2023年9月14日 · Biotechnology beyond medicine is actively helping us to achieve the SDGs in an inconspicuous yet powerful fashion at a time when meaningful progress is crucial. Medical biotechnology (red biotech) has been transformative to our overall health and life expectancy, but leveraging biology as technology isn’t limited to breakthroughs in …
How biotech can revolutionize healthcare for the future | World ...
网页2022年11月3日 · Biotech and its applications are rapidly evolving and have the potential to revolutionize industries, including healthcare. But forward-thinking businesses, governments and academia need to work together to realize biotechnology's full promise. C4IR Serbia recently launched at the Biotech Future Forum as biotech was revealed to be the …
6 expert essays on the future of biotech | World Economic Forum
网页2020年1月23日 · Biotechnology is a rapidly changing field that continues to transform both in scope and impact. Karl Ereky first coined the term biotechnology in 1919. However, biotechnology’s roots trace back to as early as the 1600s when a Prussian physician, Georg Ernst Stahl, pioneered a new fermentation technology referred to as “zymotechnology.”
Four problems that biotechnology can help solve - The World …
网页2016年6月27日 · Biotechnology offers some of the most promising and targeted ways to find solutions to these threats. For example, the British company Oxitec, a subsidiary of Intrexon Corporation, offers a technology to control the spread of a single species of insect, Aedes aegypti, the primary vector for dengue, chikungunya and Zika virus outbreaks around ...
Biotech can provide solutions to the global food crisis | World ...
网页2023年1月17日 · Biotechnology holds part of the key to enabling a transformation of our economy and our food systems. While in the past, we have mainly focused on offering farmers sustainable alternatives to chemical pesticides and food waste reduction, for instance by extending the shelf-life of products, the current innovative biotechnological …
AI and Biotechnology - these two super technologies are …
网页2019年9月17日 · The matching power of AI means that eight lives could be saved by just one deceased organ donor; innovations in biotechnology could ensure that organs are never wasted. The faster these technologies advance, the more lives we can save. AI and biotech are undergoing rapid development precisely because they have such far-reaching potential.
How biotechnology is evolving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
网页2018年5月16日 · How biotechnology is evolving in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. When modern biotechnology emerged in the late 1970s, it was first applied in the health sector, with the onset of recombinant DNA. One decade later, the same molecular approaches reached the agricultural and food industries, not without controversy.
How could biotechnology improve your life? - The World …
网页Feb 25, 2013. Experts on the World Economic Forum’s Council on Biotechnology have selected 10 developments which they believe could help not only meet the rapidly growing demand for energy, food and healthcare, but also increase productivity and create new jobs, should issues such as regulatory certainty, public perception and investment be ...
Biosolutions: A clear path to fighting climate change
网页2022年5月23日 · Biotechnology provides powerful solutions to many of today’s climate, health and sustainability challenges, but implementing them comes with its own set of issues. Transformative biosolutions face long approval processes before they can be released on the market, making the development of new and more sustainable products …