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Biotechnology

Body of knowledge related to the use of organisms, cells or cell-derived constituents for the purpose of developing products which are technically, scientifically and clinically useful. Alteration of biologic function at the molecular level (i.e., GENETIC ENGINEERING) is a central focus; laboratory methods used include TRANSFECTION and CLONING technologies, sequence and structure analysis algorithms, computer databases, and gene and protein structure function analysis and prediction.

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Body of knowledge related to the use of organisms, cells or cell-derived constituents for the purpose of developing products which are technically, scientifically and clinically useful. Alteration of biologic function at the molecular level (i.e., GENETIC ENGINEERING) is a central focus; laboratory methods used include TRANSFECTION and CLONING technologies, sequence and structure analysis algorithms, computer databases, and gene and protein structure function analysis and prediction.

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  • Biotechnologies

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Biotechnology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001709. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001709
  2. Biotechnology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology
  3. Biotechnology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7108