Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Klaus Buchholz Издательство: Страниц: 490 ISBN: 9783527317660
Описание
The authors present a systematic, yet concise, overview of the field, science and application, of biotechnology and how it developed. This includes some history, with roots going back several thousand years, highlighting great achievements in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It illustrates how progress actually occurs, driven by ideas and human activity with individuals playing decisive roles. The rapid and exciting changes occuring in the development of ?the new? biotechnology are treated extensively. The traditional fields of biochemical engineering and industrial biotechnology, as well the most recent progress in biosystems engineering, modern pharmaceutical and plant biotechnology are covered. The recent dramatic explosion in knowledge from genetics and cell biology have revolutionized biotechnology causing fundemental changes in related medical fields: e.g., from intervention to preventive and regenerative medicine. How this occurred,the prime movers, the principle...
