BIOTECHNOLOGY & TUBE BABY
By.Ajeng Renny L
Ass.Wr.Wb.
In this time, I want to tell you about Biotechnology and Tube Baby. I take this topic because it is the popular things, but controversial. Before we talk about it, we must know about Biotechnology. Why do I say that? Because we know that Tube Baby has relation with biotechnology. If I explain about it without explain about biotechnology, I think it is will not connect.
Biotechnology, do you know? Biotechnology has large definition, but there is organization named OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) said that the biotechnology is the realization of scientific and material manipulation by biology agent to give goods and service. But there is other meaning about it.
“Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.”
Before the 1970s, the term, biotechnology, was primarily used in the food processing and agriculture industries. Since the 1970s, it began to be used by the Western scientific establishment to refer to laboratory-based techniques being developed in biological research, such as recombinant DNA or tissue culture-based processes. In fact, the term should be used in a much broader sense to describe the whole range of methods, both ancient and modern, used to manipulate organic to reach the demands of human. So the term can be defined as, “The application of indigenous and/or scientific knowledge to the management of (parts of) microorganisms, or of cells and tissues of higher organisms, so that these supply goods and services of use to human beings.
There has been a great deal of talk – and money – poured into biotechnology with the hope that miracle drugs will appear. While there do seem to be a small number of efficacious drugs, in general the biotechnology revolution has not happened in the pharmaceutical sector. However, recent progress with monoclonal antibody based drugs, such as Gene tech’s Avastin suggest that biotechnological may finally have found a role in pharmaceutical sales.