Biotechnology as always

Biotechnological creations are already part of the daily life of human beings and can be found in pharmacies or various stores, as the most common ones. In recent years, biotechnology has become one of the main points of support against the COVID-19 pandemic, since it has supported medicine in deciphering the genome of the virus and understanding how the body's defense system acts. According to the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), it is responsible for the development of more than 200 vaccines and drugs such as antibiotics, regenerative therapies and the production of artificial organs.

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In practice, biotechnology is known as the use of living cells for the production and optimization of medicines, food and other products, useful to man as a gender, it focuses on the analysis of living bodies to take advantage of their resources and capabilities through technology, it applies the ideas of engineering and other sciences to use biological agents in the treatment of organic resources, including inorganic ones, thus allowing to obtain or modify different types of products, as in the case of vaccines. It is a correlation of sciences united with the same objective or purpose.

As early as 1922, Fleming worked on lysozyme, a bactericidal enzyme that prevents infections, which is found in numerous substances secreted by living beings, saliva, tears or nasal secretions and which acts as a defense against infections. It was in 1929 when he discovered that a mold (fungus) was capable of producing a substance that eliminated pathogenic bacteria, and penicillin was born. This is to make a little history, since throughout the twentieth century advances were made as a product of biotechnology, perhaps one of the most remembered and public was the cloning of the sheep "Dolly", a challenge for modern technology to be able to perform a cloning.

There are many processes that can be carried out thanks to biotechnology, one of them is biodegradation, where the use of microorganisms for the decomposition of a substance, has given very accurate results. Bioremediation, executes the use of organisms to recover a place whose natural conditions have been affected by pollution or other destructive elements. The use of biotechnologies can increase the efficiency and productivity of processes; in the development of health-related products with an important impact on the population, it also offers opportunities for innovation and development in various sectors, such as agriculture, marine processes, information technology and the environment.