Question

How Can Biotechnology Help Treat Diseases?

Answer 1

Biotechnology:

1. It is a technology which deals with the usage of live organisms or enzymes from organisms to produce products useful to humans.
2. Application of biotechnology includes therapeutics, diagnostics, bioremediation, etc.
3. This involves:

• Providing the best catalyst as a pure enzyme.
• Creating optimal temperature for the catalyst to act.
• Downstream processing to purify the compound desired.

Disease treatment by biotechnology:

1. Early diagnosis is important, for effective treatment.
2. Thus, biotechnology helps in the early diagnosis of diseases.
3. rDNA technology, ELISA, and polymerase chain reaction(PCR) are some techniques used for diagnosis.
4. It helps in the creation of medicine that helps in the prevention and treatment of many illnesses like stroke, leukaemia, hepatitis, etc.
5. Genetically engineered insulin and gene therapy are some disease treatment techniques.
6. Biotechnology helps in the production of transgenic animals which indeed helps in the study of diseases, checking of vaccine and chemical safety, also in the production of biological products.