Advances in biotechnology and future impact on animal health

摘要

The birth of biotechnology and original expectations: The term 'biotechnology' was coined in 1919 by Karl Ereky, a Hungarian engineer, who described the term to capture the process by which products could be produced from raw materials with the aid ofliving organisms. The field has evolved over the decades but really exploded in the latter part of the 20th Century with the advent of the new techniques of genetic engineering. Techniques such as gene splicing and recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) technology allowed for the first time the selection of segments of DNA to be taken from one organism and placed into the cells of another organism. The ability to make bacterial or eukaryotic cells produce foreign plant and animal molecules led to a sudden new biological revolution. Foremost, genetic engineering brought biotechnology to the forefront of science and commercial applications soon followed.